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On Mon. 16 Aug 1943 Oberstleutnant Josef Salminger of GebirgsJ_ger Reg.....

1943-08-16

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Oberstleutnant Josef Salminger of GebirgsJ_ger Regiment 98 of German 1st Mountain Division ordered the massacre of 317 people of the village of Kommeno in Greece.

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