Kidnap in Crete (39 page)
Authors: Rick Stroud
‘“It is certain”’: General Student, order dated
31
.
5
.
41
, quoted Memorandum, Canea,
1942
; quoted in Beevor, Kindle edition.
| | ‘The victors needed’: This account is based on the online record and photographed copy of Franz Peter Weixler’s deposition to the Nuremberg Trial, Goering Case , translator Herma Plummer, Nov. 1945 . |
‘One lay on the ground’: Weixler photographs online and in CEMA.
| | ‘A few days later’: Weixler, Nuremberg deposition. |
| | ‘The streets were cleared’: eyewitness account, CEMA. |
| | ‘Although most of the Allied troops’: Harokopos, The Fortress Crete. 1941 – 1944 , p. 42 . |
| | ‘An engineer from Rethymnon’: ibid., p. 64 . |
| | ‘At 22 : 00 hours on 26 July’: NA/ADM 236 / 30 . |
‘
Thrasher
departed for Alexandria’: Beevor, Kindle edition.
| | ‘A translator, Manolis Vassilakis’: Harokopos, p. 49 . |
| | ‘The men split up’: ibid., p. 52 . |
| | ‘I gazed and gazed’: Psychoundakis, The Cretan Runner , p. 59 . |
| | ‘some were thrashed’: ibid., p. 55 . |
‘The behaviour of the villagers’: Harokopos, p.
53
.
‘Escaping soldiers were led’: Kokonas,
The Cretan Resistance
1941
–
1945
, p.
35
.
| | ‘The Greeks call this period’: Mazower, Inside Hitler’s Greece , p. 89 . |
| | ‘Churchill wanted Greece’: British Reports on Greece , ed. Lars Baerentzen, Museum Tusculanum, Copenhagen, 1982 , p. 41 . |
‘SOE was a shadowy affair’: the paragraphs describing the early history of the SOE are based on Foot,
SOE The Special Operations Executive,
1940
–
1946
,
p.
4
.
| | ‘In the early years’: see Fielding, Hide and Seek . |
‘“Nobody who did not experience it”’: Foot, p.
43
.
‘“SOE personnel were always treated”’: Beevor, Kindle edition.
| | ‘“I found Tara, a whole villa”’: W. Stanley Moss unpublished diary, IWM/ 05 / 74 / 1 . |
| | ‘Sophie’s initial impressions’: Tarnowski, The Last Mazurka , p. 216 . |
‘They soon welcomed’: author interview with Candida Lycett Green and Daphne Astor.
| | ‘He described the days’: ibid., p. 217 . |
‘The inhabitants of Tara’: ibid, p.
218
.
| | ‘On the eve of an agent’s deployment’: ibid, p. 221 . |
‘Moss wrote in his diary’: The diary of William Stanley Moss.
9
The Cretan Resistance is Born
| | ‘For Colonel Michail Filippakis’: eyewitness account, Clemenceau Filliakis, CEMA. |
‘When he heard’: ibid.
| | ‘A month later ’: ibid. |
‘He was a’: Leigh Fermor, typewritten MS, NLS/
13338
/
32
.
| | ‘Yerakari remained an important’: Harokopos, Fortress Crete , p. 95 . |
‘
The people were so hospitable’: Beevor, Kindle edition.
| | ‘The letter stated’: Harokopos, pp. 92 – 112 . |
| | ‘Fielding’s relationship with Papadakis’: Fielding, Kindle edition. |
‘After several frustrating nights’: ibid.
| | ‘One SOE agent wrote’: Rendel, Appointment in Crete . |
‘The three men made it’: Kalitsounakis, CEMA.
| | ‘There were other dangers’: Harokopos, p. 114 . |
‘There were no SS battalions’: Beevor, Kindle edition.
‘Cairo sent a signal’: NLS/PLF
13338
/
19
.
| | ‘In his testimony Morakis’: Harokopos, p. 120 . |
| | ‘The executioner was armed’: CEMA. |
| | ‘In it he concluded’: NLS/PLF 13338 / 4 ‘Crete’. |
‘Bräuer was under no misapprehension’: NLS/PLF/
13338
/
6
.
| | ‘The area commander for Rethymnon’: ibid. |
| | ‘A British officer in Cairo’: Wood quoted in SOE report No. 1 , NLS/PLF 13338 / 19 . |
| | ‘“That Greece denounces the King”’: NA HS 5 / 671 . |
‘Leigh Fermor always claimed’: SOE Report, NLS/PLF/
13338
/
19
.
‘In his report’: NLS/PLF/
13338
/
19
.
‘Leigh Fermor believed’: NLS/PLF
13338
/
19
.
‘In another of’: NLS/PLF
13338
/
19
.
| | ‘Any trained soldier’: Geoffrey Matthews, late Irish Guards. |
| | ‘Among the ten’: Lefteris Kalitsounakis, eyewitness account, CEMA. |
| | ‘This is called an “accidental discharge”’: author interview with Geoffrey Matthews, late Irish Guards. |
‘Yanni’s body lay in the open’: Kalitsounakis, eyewitness account.
‘who was very excitable’: author interview, Adrian and Victoria Bartlett.
| | ‘The first meeting took place’: SOE Report, NLS/PLF/ 13338 / 19 . |
‘A message about the proposed’: Harokopos,
Fortress Crete
, p.
205
.
‘Leigh Fermor says’: SOE Report, NLS/PLF/
13338
/
19
.
| | ‘Leigh Fermor’s signal ended’: NA HS 5 / 418 . |
‘Bandouvas’s headquarters were’: SOE Report, NLS/PLF/
13338
/
19
.
‘On
20
August, a huge drop’: ibid.
‘Bandouvas took the war’: Beevor, Kindle edition.
| | ‘At first the troops’: eyewitness accounts, CEMA. |
| | ‘Bandouvas stood on the beach’: Rendel, Appointment in Crete , pp. 64 – 6 . |
| | ‘It occurred to him’: NA. HS 5 / 732 . |
‘He argued strongly’: Sweet-Escott,
Baker Street Irregular
, p.
197
.
‘“I made myself extemely unpopular”’: ibid.
| | ‘On Crete, Tom Dunbabin’: Harokopos, Abduction , p. 63 . |
‘Dunbabin sent word’: Rendel,
Appointment in Crete
, p.
119
.
‘Dunbabin then turned his attention’: NA/HS
5
/
732
.
‘He told his new friend’: ‘Abducting a General’, Patrick Leigh Fermor,
handwritten MS, NLS/PLF/
13338
/
31
.
| | ‘Moss was spared the training’: Moss, unpublished diary, IWM, 05 / 74 / 1 . |
‘Moss’s most enjoyable’: ibid.
‘“In our flat we had’: Annette Street, ‘Long Ago and Far Away’,
unpublished memoir, IWM
95
/
34
/
1
.
‘He wanted to take Billy Moss’: ibid. In the next sentence Annette wrote: ‘ In fact when the operation came off Billy was invaluable.’
‘His audience of two’: David Smiley, quoted in Tarnowski,
Last Mazurka
,
p.
219
.
| | ‘When at last’: The Diary of William Stanley Moss. |
| | ‘They were delayed several times’ ibid. |
‘On one occasion’: ibid.
| | ‘At abour four’: Rendel, Appointment in Crete , p. 130 . |
‘The plane lumbered into the sky’: Sortie report, Feb.
4
/
5
,
1944
NA/Air
23
/
1443
.
‘On the Omalos plateau’: Rendel, p.
129
.
| | ‘To Rendel’s disgust’: ibid., p. 130 . |
| | ‘Leigh Fermor’s first’: ‘Abducting a General’, handwritten MS, NLS/PLF/ 13338 / 31 . |
