Cretan resistance

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The Cretan resistance was a resistance movement against Nazi Germany by the residents of the Greek island of Crete during World War II. Part of the larger Greek Resistance, it lasted from May 20, 1941, when the Germany Wehrmacht invaded the island in the Battle of Crete, until the end of the war. The resistance involved figures such as Patrick Leigh Fermor and George Psychoundakis. Some of movement's most famous moments included the abduction of General Heinrich Kreipe and the battle of Trahili.