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AGIA (Village) THERISSOS
The village of Agia is 9km from Chania on the Chania - Alikianos road.
In the area there is Agia Lake and the remains of the Byzantine bishopric of Kydonia.
A little further from Agia Community is the Agia prison which was built in about 1930 by Eleftherios Venizelos. It was there that took place horrid crimes against innocent people and macabre sacrifice of Greek heroes. The prison deserves well the name "The Calvary of Crete" and without doubt they represent a notorious and barbaric act of Hitler's Nazi Germany. German parachutists occupied them the first hours of their landing at the Battle of Crete. Their leader was colonel Haindrich. The prison was converted into a Greek Dachaou. It was there that in 16-9-1944 the Germans, in retaliation to the kidnapping of general Krappe by the Cretan resistance, beheaded 60 prisoners with an axe.
This text is cited Dec 2001 from a WebPage of the Municipality of Therissos.
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