Graeme,
This memorial is slightly to the west of Ano Viannos. I remember the time when a resistance leader, not a part of Viannos but inland from there was led to the impression, wrongly, that the British were about to invade and liberate the island. He conducted an attack on a German patrol in the mountains and killed around a hundred of them.
The reprisal for this attack was conducted by General Meuller and centred on Ano Viannos and the surrounding villages. The Germans moved into Viannos and murdered everyone, men women and children, that they found there. They continued into several villages around Viannos with equal ferocity.
When I was there there even in 1966 there was a strange air of uncertainty, of fear.
Ray
