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Stelios Bervanakis war story. Part 1 /

Stelianos Bervanakis survived Nazi imprisonment and against all odds for over two years. For over two years he was starved and beaten and sometimes left for dead. This is his heroic story as told to Barrie Machin in 1968. There were many war heroes in the Cretan resistance to the Nazi occupation of...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bervanakis, Stelios (Speaker), Machin, Barrie, 1939- (Producer)
Format: Video
Language:Greek, Modern (1453-)
Language Notes:In Greek.
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Privately Published, 2014.
Series:Academic Video Online
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons.
Operation Mercury, 1941.
Crete (Greece) > History > Occupation, 1941-1945.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Récits personnels.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Prisonniers et prisons.
Opération Merkur, 1941.
Crète (Grèce) > Histoire > 1941-1945 (Occupation)
Prisoners of war.
Greece > Crete.
1939-1945
oral histories (literary works)
History.
Oral histories.
Personal narratives.
Histoires orales.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:Stelianos Bervanakis survived Nazi imprisonment and against all odds for over two years. For over two years he was starved and beaten and sometimes left for dead. This is his heroic story as told to Barrie Machin in 1968. There were many war heroes in the Cretan resistance to the Nazi occupation of Crete. We owe our very existence and our democracy to these heroes. Stelios' story is a paradigm of the indomitable Greek spirit.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed October 21, 2021).
Physical Description:1 online resource (113 minutes)
Playing Time:01:52:30