Over a hundred young Greeks were slated to be shot after resistance fighters and British forces sabotaged an airfield.
The German occupation of Greece began in 1941, and continued for three years of forced labour, summary executions, and famines. By the summer of 1944, Berlin was struggling to keep hold of the Mediterranean, but airbases popping up on the Greek islands might have been a grave setback for the Allied cause.
In 1910, Constantine Zervakos, a young monk from the Greek island of Paros, found himself charged with espionage.
Until 1912, the city and port of Thessalonica was in the hands of the Muslim Turks, and any Greek, especially a Christian, took his life in his hands passing through. In 1910, a newly-minted monk of the Longovarda monastery on Paros got himself into very hot water.