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The True Story of Occupied Crete — the Island Where Villagers Fought the Paratroopers

7.1K views · Sep 27, 2026 · People & Blogs

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  • @asullivan4047 · 4 days ago

    Excellent photography/maps/animated scenes enabling viewer's 👀 to better understand what the orator is describing 😉

  • @davidgaston738 · 1 day ago

    many allied soldiers got left behind in the evacuation it was said high in the mountains that these guys when well oiled on Raki would burst in to songs like Tipperary and waltzing Matilda theGermans ducked going after them

  • @stevemartin6144 · 23 hours ago

    Within the first 55 seconds we hear of the first lie. Fallschirmjager troops had already been dropped from Ju-52 transports one year previous during the invasion of Nederland and Belgium during May, 1940. This was not "new" at all as falsely claimed.

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