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  2. Xan Fielding - Wikipedia

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    Xan Fielding. Alexander Percival Feilman Wallace DSO (26 November 1918 – 19 August 1991), known as Xan Fielding, was a British author, translator, journalist and traveller, who served as a Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent in Crete, France and East Asia during World War II. The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage and ...

  3. John Pendlebury - Wikipedia

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    British School of Archaeology at Athens, Knossos. Egypt Exploration Society. John Devitt Stringfellow Pendlebury (12 October 1904 – 22 May 1941) was a British archaeologist who worked for British intelligence during World War II. He was captured and summarily executed by German troops during the Battle of Crete.

  4. History of Crete - Wikipedia

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    The Minoan civilization was the first civilization in Europe. During the Iron Age, Crete developed an Ancient Greece -influenced organization of city-states, then successively became part of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Venetian Republic, the Ottoman Empire, an autonomous state, and the modern state of Greece.

  5. Bruno Bräuer - Wikipedia

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    Bruno Bräuer. Bruno Bräuer (4 February 1893 – 20 May 1947) was a general in the paratroop forces of Nazi Germany during World War II. He served as a commander on Crete (called Fortress Crete by the Germans) and then commanded the 9th Paratroop Division. After the war, he was convicted of war crimes and executed, along with Friedrich-Wilhelm ...

  6. Suzanne Eaton - Wikipedia

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    TU Dresden. Thesis. Molecular analysis of an immunoglobulin heavy chain promoter (1988) Doctoral advisor. Kathryn Calame. Suzanne Eaton (December 23, 1959 – July 2, 2019) was an American scientist and professor of molecular biology at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany.

  7. 2021 Arkalochori earthquake - Wikipedia

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    The ~M w 8.0–8.5 earthquake in Crete in 365 AD and 1303 are examples of subduction zone events. In 1810 and 1856, Crete was struck by large intermediate-depth intraplate earthquakes which were devastating and felt strongly in Africa and the Levant. The 1810 and 1856 earthquakes occurred within the subducting African plate rather than at the ...

  8. George Psychoundakis - Wikipedia

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    George Psychoundakis. George Psychoundakis BEM (Greek: Γεώργιος Ψυχουντάκης; 3 November 1920 – 29 January 2006) was a member of the Greek Resistance on Crete during the Second World War and after the war an author. Following the German invasion, between 1941 and 1945, he served as the dispatch runner for the Special ...

  9. Von Blücher brothers - Wikipedia

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    Obituary for the von Blücher brothers, German newspaper, June 1941. Four weeks after the battle the brothers' mother, Gertrud (Freiin Marschall) von Nordheim (widowed Gräfin von Blücher), who had lost her husband in 1924, was informed that three of her four sons had been killed on the same day in the Battle of Crete.

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