70 years on, Greeks awaiting justice in Nazi massacre village

[WorldNews]

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Dístomo (Greece) (AFP) - Loukas Sehremelis was just 12 years old when Nazi troops burst into his house in the Greek village of Distomo, shooting and killing indiscriminately. A small town in central Greece still inhabited today, Distomo has become the symbol of atrocities committed by Nazi troops as they pulled back to Germany in the wake of the Allied Normandy landings in the summer of 1944. A quarter of Distomo's population died -- 218 people including infants and pregnant women who were disemboweled, says the town's deputy mayor Loukas Zissis, who lost his grandfather and uncle in the massacre. Germany's occupying forces used the pretext that they had come under attack by Greek guerrillas.

 

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