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Heirs of victims of the 1944 Distomo massacre have filed a formal legal notice demanding Justice Minister Giorgos Floridis authorize the seizure of German state assets to satisfy a landmark reparations ruling.

Senior students of Rheingauschule highs school from Geisenheim, a city near Hessen, west of Frankfurt in Germany, were taken on a guided tour of the Mausoleum and the Nazi Victims Museum in Distomo in Boeotia in Greece.

An event commemorating the 74th anniversary of the Distomo village massacre was held over the weekend in the south-central Greek mainland town of the same name, where Nazi occupation troops executed 218 civilians in 1944.