In June 1941, the Germans executed the Greeks who had resisted in the Battle of Crete by shooting them. The death penalty prisoners were killed instantly by a single shot. The Cretan civilians who had weapons threw themselves into the battle. Many Greek civilians were shot dead under martial law.

  In June 1941, the Germans executed the Greeks who had resisted in the Battle of Crete by shooting them. The death penalty was carried out with a single shot, and the condemned died instantly. Cretan civilians who wanted to take up arms threw themselves into the battle. Many Greek civilians were shot dead under martial law. When Crete was occupied by the Germans, the reprisals for resistance were merciless. From June 1st to June 6th 1941, when Crete was first occupied by the Germans, 200 people were executed.

   The Battle of Crete resulted in 426 Greek military deaths, 1,742 British military deaths, 1,737 military injuries, 11,835 prisoners of war, 1,990 German military deaths, and 1,995 German military personnel unaccounted for. In particular, the losses of the elite German airborne troops exceeded 8,000.

The atrocities committed by the German army in the village of Kalatza in the Argolis region of Greece broke out in June 1944. On June 4th 1944, the German occupation forces, enraged by the Troizenians who were resisting by raising their heads, rounded up all the men of Kalatza and locked them up in a warehouse. The following day, on June 5th, the Germans selected 23 men between the ages of 18 and 55 and took them to a dried-up river near the Trachian-Kranidi road in the Nihori settlement, where they were executed. On the main road of Nihoritika, the Kranidi Road, there was torture and murder of 18-year-old Vassilis Bouras, who was hanged for three days. The German military executions were carried out as a form of retaliation for the actions of ELAS in the area.

  In Greece, resistance against the German occupation forces broke out between 1941 and 1944. Initially, all of the Greek resistance groups started out with the same goal, but they gradually became divided due to the intervention of foreign powers seeking to gain influence. This led to the differentiation of the Greek national resistance organizations, such as the EAM, ELAS, WEAPONS, as well as the EDES and the Greek Army.