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An annual commemoration of Greek resistance in World War II was held across from the historic bridge of Gorgopotamos, in central Greece, on Sunday.

In Crete in 1941 there was no turning back as if you were entering the war against the Nazi occupiers. However, the airborne landing of the Germans during World War II under the code name "Unternehmen Merkur" (Operation Mercury) against the island did not frighten the Cretans, who put up an unexpectedly strong resistance against the numerically superior Germans.