And while Fotis is making his way back to his hideout, we see what Martha’s been doing.
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Yep, partisans killing nazis = reprisals.
Chapter 2, page 11
We now get to see the kids again. They’re back at their hideout which I haven’t painted for over a year. 😛 I like and dislike elements in this page, but I think all in all it works considering the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Meanwhile, Grandma definitely pulls rank on Basil.
Chapter 2, page 13
A lot of old neighborhoods (and Plaka, Athens is an OLD neighborhood) had the so called oldfashioned yards: large open (and usually tiled) spaces that were the communal yard/garden for anything from 2 to 4 or even more houses, all[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Meet Major (Oberführer) Eichel and his subordinate, Colonel (Standartenführer) Bohm. Two SS officers we’ll be seeing relatively often.
Reprisals on the population for anything the resistance did, and any violence towards the occupying troops, was a staple of nazi discipline. The ratio of how many civilians (or resistance, once they had caught some, or both) to each German[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And so reprisals are set up… The announcement in the papers is an adaptation of a couple of original ones that have survived from newspapers of the time to this day, complete with phrasing and reasoning. Here is one example,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
…this approach is not going to score you points with her, Orestes…