Aigaleo massacre

The authorities appointed by the occupiers were removed and in the next day ELAS' delegates asked the local police forces to join them in the fight to protect the population against the Nazis' atrocities or to leave the city.

This was done by unleashing a wave of terrorist action including robbery, destruction of infrastructure and murders of local people, most of the times without a specific reason.

[10] However, according to the testimony of 11 year-old Ioannis Kourousis, another German battalion reached Aigaleo from the west (from Haidari), something that has been interpreted as a fore-planned operation of trapping the locals.

This is also confirmed by a letter sent by a high-ranking retired police officer to the local newspaper "Perifereiakos Typos" where it is mentioned that "the German Destruction Force stationed in Dafni was ordered to proceed in harsh retaliations".

The murderers and their local collaborators (there exist testimonies that some of the perpetrators spoke Greek fluently (like native speakers)) were left unpunished by the post-occupation authorities.