WORLD WAR II GERMAN CEMETERY in Maleme CHANIA CRETE | Greece Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof in [ 4K ]
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- The German Cemetery in Maleme, Chania is one of the most important historic monuments in Crete. It is the resting place of more than 4000 German soldiers that lost their lives in battle during the Second World War from 1941 to 1945. More than 3000 of them during the airborne invasion in Maleme airport and the battle of Crete from May 20th - June 1st 1941.
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One day last year I spent a few hours at the Allied cemetery at Souda Bay. As a Kiwi, it was important to me. It was a beautiful day and I walked all the rows of Kiwi and Aus soldier's graves, speaking each name aloud. I hoped they weren't all forgotten names. What a fabulously-maintained cemetery and a testament to the Cretan people and their regard for the Allies. If only I had known of the German cemetery, I would have visited there too. I guess it doesn't get quite the same publicity. Whatever nationality, they were all just young men being used in war.
Your sentiments and respect for the fallen resonate with me. I'm a westernized male from South Korea and visited both Allied and German war graves in Ypres and Recogne. I tried to see all the graves and read the names. I admire your commitment to read all the names allowed. Respect!
My name sake country...
Greetings from New Zealand gentlemen...
My grandfather fought here, I live here now. A lot of good men died, on both sides. As my grandfather quoted in a memorial book about the battle of Crete.
" waste of time, waste of life.
@@jordanchristian7268 The battle of Crete contributed to the delay of the operation Barbarossa.
Es ist eine respektvolle Anlage, vielen Dank allen Verantwortlichen. Kein Kanonendonner wird sie mehr stoeren, nur der Wind weht ueber die Graeber. Glueck ab.
It is disgusting to build such a monument for criminals that attacked the peaceful people of Crete. There is no excuse for them.
Erhart Kästners Besuch in Maleme
'' In 1952 I visited Athens for the first time after the war. In the German Embassy, when they heard that I intented to go to Crete, since they knew that the wounds from the German Occupation were still open, they proposed to me to pretend that I was a Swiss. But I knew the Cretans. From the very first moment I said I was a German, and not only did I have a bad time, but from every place I have been I experienced the well-known Cretan hospitality".
''One afternoon, as the sun was going down, I visited the German Cemetery in Maleme; it was peaceful with only the sun rays falling on it. But I was wrong. There was a living soul there, it was a Cretan woman dressed in black. To my greatest surprise I saw her lighting candles to the graves of the German soldiers, who died during the battle of Crete and she was going methodically from one grave to the other, I approached her... and I asked her:
''Are you from here...???''. .''Yes...she replied. And why are you doing this? Those men killed so many Cretans during the war...!''
And Kästner writes:'' This answer only in Greece could have been given.
'' The woman replied : ''my child, from your accent you seem to be a foreigner and you probably do not know what happend here since 1941 to 1944. My husband was killed in the battle of Crete and I was left alone with my only son. Germans took him as a hostage in 1943 and he died in a concentration camp (KZ) in Sachsenhausen. I do not know where my kid is buried. But I know that all those children here were the children of a mother like me. And I light candles to their memory, because their mothers can not come down here. I am sure that some other mother will light a candle to the memory of my son.
''And the German finished surprised: '' Only in Greece such an answer could have been given.''
@@user-wy7hw5vk7o That was a nice story of human individual capability to adjust even to worst wrong doings. It does not forgive in any amount the attrocities done by Germans. Every German who participated into the war of aggression has to carry his responsibility.
@@juusohamalainen7507 bullshit, the Nazi war machine, is so much more complex then you described.
It's si disgusting people like you have that kind of poor education and mentality to think "just because it's german is a nazi or because it was a soldier it had to support the regime" grow up, start reading few books and no just the side which won a war, there were a lot of young soldier under 20's even less, others giving their service as any other country, others who were doing their job because to save their families or to survive the Hitler's oppression, there's bunch of reason to learn and understand the war the majority of the soldiers in the wars are not guilty, the just have to follow orders, and in those times if you don't "help" your county probably you would've lost family members or the whole family or your own life, usually, the government easily became your family in homeless people who could lost everything they have in their lives, all of these things happened in nazi and USSR regimens, such as the french soldier have to follow orders from Vichy, same Italy on the oppression of Mussolini, and today's days is usually in parts of Africa and middle East, stop saying disgusting things like that, things like have happened always, and here in South America as well, the inderect wars soldiers lost their lives because of the ideology's government etc...
@@nikowagnerc Son don't even try to educate people whose knowledge of history is superior to what you will ever achieve.