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.

Two people were fatally injured and a woman wounded on Sunday afternoon at a  tavern in the suburb of Vari when they were shot by persond unknown.

Communist Party secretary general Dimitris Koutsoumbas went today and paid homage at the rifle range of Kaisariani, where seventy years ago Nazi occupiers executed 200 Greek prisoners.