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.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has crossed the line once again but this time he surpassed himself with a provocative statement during the AKP’s Parliamentary Group meeting.

In a recent interview in Bremen based Weser Kurier, German historian Karl Heinz Roth notes that Nazi Germany devastated occupied Greece killing tens of thousands, destroying almost all infrastructure, and torching villages and private property, and therefore owes Greece almost 200 billion in reparations.