Crete is taken by the Nazis. Despite the victory, the battle cost them the biggest human losses than any previous campaign up to that point in the war. Just two days before the Allied surrender, Hitler himself sent a cable to his general on the ground, asking: 'France fell in eight days, why is Crete still free?' This image depicts German dead, laying their troops to rest in what will be their final resting place – the fertile and hospitable grounds of Crete. Today, at the German War Cemetery outside Hania, are the remains of thousands of invading Germans. A total of 7,000 Nazis died in Crete.
