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On Mon. 13 Dec 1943 Troops of German 117th J_ger Division, under the o.....

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Troops of German 117th J_ger Division, under the orders of Karl von Le Suire, burned 200 women and children in a schoolhouse and machine gunned 500 males aged 12 or older in the town of Kalavryta, Greece.

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