What the records say
- When
- 29 Feb 1948 – 1 Mar 1948
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 350
- Coordinates
- 37.70° N, 24.12° E
- Description
- mass killing during the Greek Civil War
Massacre of the First Sapper Battalion
Mass killing during the Greek Civil War
The massacre of the First Sapper Battalion was the mass murder of 350 Greek soldiers imprisoned in the Makronisos prison island perpetrated by the camp guards and prisoner functionaries belonging to the Third Sapper Battalion. The massacre took place between 29 February and 1 March 1948, during the Greek Civil War.
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- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Massacre du premier bataillon de sapeurs à la prison de Makronissos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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