Agathangelos Xirouchakis

One of the students that attended his lectures at the University of Vienna was the leader of the German invading forces in Crete, Heinrich Kreipe.

Her exact words according to German Lieutenant Volf Sinter were, "I am a spy, I work with the resistance group of Piblis and I will not reveal anything else."

They were all taken to the prison at the town of Agia where Eleftheria was severely tortured by the Germans Hoffman and Fritz Sterling to reveal her contacts in the resistance.

During her interrogation, she was hung naked in the ladies room and beaten repeatedly for three days and nights but did not reveal any information.

Her last words according to the testimony of German nurse Fritz Nider who went to check that she was dead were, "Away with your dirty hands so you don’t pollute a Greek woman.