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...Athens' oft-intemperate mayor, Nikitas Kaklamanis, who upped the ante by invoking the ghosts of Greece's war dead: "Ms Merkel, you owe us for Kalavryta, you owe us for Distomo, you owe us ?70 billion ($95 billion) for the ruins you left us," he said, referring to two World War II incidents in which hundreds of Greeks were massacred in reprisal attacks by German soldiers. See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...
...Your June 15 article on the village of Kalavryta is one that would make me mortgage the homestead on TIME'S facts. Early in January 1944 a mid-air collision between many B-17's occurred near this village. Having parachuted within a day's walk of Kalavryta we started south and late in the afternoon came upon this village. The ruins were devastating and still smoldering; my heart skipped a beat, and I thought "Did one of our colliding B-17's land on this village?" It was with little relief that I heard...
Many thanks for your superb article on Kalavryta. In its classical simplicity it conveys, in all clarity, the extent of the tragedy. It is a piece of writing that would do honor to Thucydides...
...visited some of the forlorn, cold, little children [of Kalavryta] in their primitive, unheated houses, partially rebuilt . . . [These] children are available for sponsorship through the Save the Children Federation at $8 per month . . . Readers who cannot sponsor a child but who would like to help may send contributions ... to this organization at the Carnegie Endowment International Center, U.N. Plaza, New York...
...spite of Frau Schramm-or perhaps because of her-the men of the West German government began to take an interest in Kalavryta. The German who, with his wife beside him, met with the village leaders was Alexander Post, commercial counselor of the German embassy in Athens. Under the reproachful eyes of the black-draped widows, he asked about what might be done as a measure of atonement: some looms, perhaps, to establish a small tapestry-weaving business, with equipment, dyes and technical assistance to come from Germany; 10,000 poplar trees to provide wood for the crates Greece needs...