"The captured Italians had to strip down to their trousers and hand over their identification badges. I immediately suspected that they were to be shot, especially as some of them knelt down, crossed themselves and showed pictures of their relatives. After we had marched on for about ten minutes, I heard several machine guns firing at the same time. Both I and my comrades now realised that the Italians were being executed." Testimony of a witness in 1965 about one of the massacres at Kephalloniá in September 1943.
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Schminck-Gustavus, Christoph U.
Title
Kephalloniá 1943-2003. Auf den Spuren eines Kriegsverbrechens
