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The only known photo of Dimitry during his 1942 service with the Germans. From left to right: Dimitry Servas, Dimitry Statharos, and Kiriakopoulos. The uniforms are not to be mistaken as German issue but instead are a pre-war style worn by Greek Police in the 1930's and 40's. This style uniform, baggy upper breeches and multi pocket tunics, seemed to have been all the rage in those days. An 8x10 of this photo hangs in my apartment. |
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Black Saturday: Jews in Elefteria square are made to do humiliating calisthenics in the July heat. It was probably 2 days or so before this photo was taken that Dimitry found his Jewish friend from the army in Elefteria and told him to leave if he could find the chance. By the following summer 58,000+ Jews had been deported out of Thessaloniki including many of Dimitry's friends. Their final destination was Auschwitz. Photo courtesy Bundesarchiv Koblenz. |
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Dimitry's home in Alexandria. Note the balcony where Kalos stood keeping a look out for the other Germans while Dimitry listened to London on the radio. Today the balcony has fallen away but the pillars still eerily hang from the upper roof. The window to the right is Dimitry's bedroom which he and Kalos shared. |
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Greek Partisans 1944. |
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George Poulos 1944. Poulos led an anticommunist unit of 300-500 men for the Germans in 1943-1944. He fled north with the Germans and ended his career in Czeckoslovakia when he was ordered to have his men attack American troops and refused to obey his German superiors. Such an act in itself would be commendable if it weren't for the fact that he and his men raped, murdered, and pillaged many towns in Greece at random. His unit and Dimitry's 10th ELAS division clashed repeatedly as they operated in the same area opposing each other. After the war he was returned to Greece and put on trial. Poulos and Fritz Schubert were the only 2 people to be hung by Greece after its war crimes trials; Poulos was the only Greek hung for war crimes. Photo courtesy Museum of Modern History, Ljubljana, Slovenia. |
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The young men of ELAS: Photo was taken in Salonika in late 1941 early 1942 (From L to R) Two members of the resistance (dont know their names), Dimitry "Mitso" Statharos and his best friend Theodore. If you recall from part 6 or 8, Theodore was the one who wanted to beat up the shepherds for collaborating with the Germans. Theodore was caught in 1944 carrying food and messages to ELAS and was summarily executed by the Germans. Mitso carries this photo with him to this day and still mourns the loss of his good friend. |
