We sort of get a kick out of how boneheads try to
change historical realities when they become inconvenient.
The German Occupation of Greece began in April 1941 after a the Italians had been defeated by the Greek army in October 1940. The resulting occupation led to the death of some 300,000 civilians in the Greater Athens area alone due to the famine caused in large part by the German requisitioning of food for the war effort. Not surprisingly, the Greeks who are fiercely independent were not at all fond of an occupying force controlling their country. Many men a women became partisans and engaged in a campaign of harassment and guerrilla-style warfare in an effort to try and force the Germans to leave. As a result, the Germans engaged in reprisal killings of unarmed civilians.
Kommeno,
Viannos,
Kedros,
Distomo, and
Kalavryta are names that are burned into the collective memory of the Greek people.
On May 29, 2011, Stephen Harper (someone for whom most of the Collective have little love for)
visited Kalavryta to pay homage to the people murdered by the Nazis. He was the first foreign head of government to visit the village and, regardless of what we think of Harper, it's hard for anyone to be critical of his gesture.
That is, unless, you're Paul Fromm who sees Harper's visit to Kalavryta as a nefarious attempt to curry favor with Israel. Because, you know, that makes perfect sense:
