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Kurt Student
German Luftwaffe general (1890–1978)
Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope
Royal Navy officer (1883–1963)
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg
military leader, viceroy, Victoria Cross (1889-1963)
Patrick Leigh Fermor
British author, scholar and soldier (1915–2011)
5th Mountain Division
military unit
Koufonisi
small Greek island near Crete
Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller
German general (1897–1947)
Mediterranean Fleet
fleet of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom
22nd Air Landing Division (Wehrmacht)
military unit
Bruno Bräuer
German general (1893-1947)
Karl Kreipe
German general (1895–1976)
massacre of Kondomari
massacre
164th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
division
Raid on Souda Bay
boat Assault on Royal Navy ships in Crete
8th Air Corps
military unit
Alexander Andrae
German general (1888–1979)
Razing of Kandanos
Georgios Psychoundakis
Greek resistance fighter and writer (1920-2006)
Holocaust of Viannos
1943 massacres on Crete, Greece
2nd New Zealand Division
combat formation of the New Zealand Military Forces
kidnap of General Kreipe
1944 British kidnapping of a German general in Crete
Sinking of the SS Tanais
Greek-owned cargo ship
George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe
British army officer, politician and businessman (1918–2007)
Friedrich Schubert
German war criminal in Greece (World War II)
Museum of the Battle of Crete
museum in Heraklion, Crete
W. Stanley Moss
British Army officer (1921-1965)
Hans-Georg Benthack
German General and Knight's Cross recipient (1894–1973)
Xan Fielding
British Army officer, SOE agent, author and translator (1918–1991)
Cretan resistance
anti-fascist resistance movement in Greece during World War II
Operation Albumen
series of sabotages against airfields on occupied Crete in 1942
Fallschirmjäger memorial
German war memorial for German parachutists who fell during the ten-dayBattle of Crete in World War II