Paramythia executions

The Paramythia executions, also known as the Paramythia massacre, was a mass execution and war crime perpetrated by members of Nazi Germany's 1st Mountain Division and the collaborating Muslim Cham Albanian militia in the town of Paramythia and its surrounding region, during the Axis occupation of Greece in World War II. Over the period of 19–29 September 1943, 201 Greek civilians were murdered – primarily the Greek community's representatives and intellectuals – and 19 municipalities in the region of Paramythia were destroyed. After the end of the war and the defeat of the Axis powers, a series of war crime trials condemned these actions, however no defendants were ever arrested and brought to trial, as they already had fled into Albania. The perpetrators were tried in absentia. At the Hostages Trial in Nuremberg in 1948, the American judges reached the decision that the executions of Paramythia were "plain murders".