The Massacre of Kos (Italian: Eccidio di Kos) was a war crime perpetrated in early October 1943 by the Wehrmacht against Italian army POWs on the Dodecanese island of Kos, then under Italian occupation. About a hundred Italian officers were shot on the commands of General Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller, after being considered traitors for resisting the German invasion of the island (known as the Battle of Kos, part of the Dodecanese campaign).[1][2]
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- ^ Liuzzi, Pietro Giovanni; Silvestri, Stefano (2015). Kos. Una tragedia dimenticata. Aracne. ISBN 978-88-548-4047-8.