Remembrance groups to encircle German embassy for Distomo Massacre

On June 10^th 1944 Waffen-SS troops entered the village of Distomo in Northern Greece and brutally massacred 218 men, women and children, in response to partisan resistance during the Axis Occupation.

On Saturday 7^th of June 2014, the national council for German reparations and a Distomo activist group based in Hamburg have arranged to meet in Syntagma Square at 11am and then head to the German embassy, which they will symbolically encircle.

The organizers announced that further events are scheduled to take place, culminating with a memorial service in Distomo for the victims of Nazi atrocities on the Tuesday, the 10^th of June. A press conference will take place at noon on Wednesday.

Further information is available via the National Council’s website.