Μάλεμε Χανίων: Διαφορά μεταξύ των αναθεωρήσεων

'''For deeper understanding of the WW2 and post-war Maleme events''', please read a [[Robert Fulghum]] story "Maleme", where one shall find all associated feelings, that had to take place over the proud people of Crete to find a way to raise such a great memorial place and that have made the pain from WWII events turn out in a memento of peacefullpeaceful co-existence.

The (''Operation Mercury'') was headed by [[Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte]] on the Nazi side. Allied forces were successfullsuccessful only on blocking the Nazi ships from reaching Crete and opening the main huge invasion on the north coast-lines.

Von der Heydte had a quite hard time to make re-join and lead paratroopers initially sparsely located alongside the north-west coast. With a help of general Ringel´'s Alpenjaegers (Mountain Yagers) the invasion got ahead to Galatas and Chania.

After more than a week the invaders took over of the territory and conquerredconquered the city of [[Chania]]. Von der Heydte was finally sitting at a small table in a tavern there and asked to seek and bring in the Lord Mayor of the city to ask for unconditional capitulation.

The '''Lord Mayor of the Chania''', walked up with a translator to the tavern and once facing at the table to baron von der Heydte, he had, in response to Heydte's request to capitulate and hand-over the city to his hands, surprised the invader at the very Crete-style - saying that he is ready to capitulate, but does not see any officer to hand-over city to and simply rejected to discuss about any capitulation as he does not believe von der Heydte to be any kind of officer at all because he has no such uniform and cannot proof himself by any available means to be an officer...just in shirt, torn of trousers and wounded knees, no cap - he lost it days ago, just a tied hankerchiefhandkerchief and only a belt was remembering the original uniform.