Distomo Massacre: 70 years
The descendants of people who lost their lives violently do not forget and they continue their struggle for a moral, at least, vindication. That is to receive German reparations, for which they "fight" in European courts, supposedly supported by pending political promises.
For this reason, today, at 11.00, an activist group based in Hamburg, as well as the National Council for the Reclaim of German Reparations, call for a meeting and demostration towards German embassy, which they will symbolically encircle.
After this event, members of the activist group and members of the National Council will move to Distomo in order to participate in further events of remembrance and reclaim, which culminate Tuesday, June 10, on the day of the Holocaust. The scheduled events include the commemoration of massacred by German occupying troops and the ceremony at Distomo mausoleum.
In the meantime, the National Council released a resolution, signed by inhabitants of Distomo. This resolution claims than "no one shall obtain the right or the legitimacy to use the victims and symbols of the massacre in order to highlight irresponsible political and personal aspirations".
As written in history, on June 10th 1944 Waffen-SS troops of Nazi era in Germany entered the village of Distomo in Northern Greece and brutally massacred 218 men, women and children, in response to partisan resistance during the Axis Occupation.
