A MAP OF GREECE AND THE ǼGEAN SEA, showing some of the islands of great strategic value in relation to Turkey and the Dardanelles, which are reported to have been captured by the Nazis. The islands of Thasos, Lemnos, Mitylene, and Chios are claimed by the Germans to be in their hands, as also is Samothrace, the northern island of the two between Lemnos and Thasos. All of northern and central Greece has been captured by the Germans and Italians, and German communiques claim the seizure of Corinth and Patras in Peloponnesus (Morea).
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24594, 30 April 1941, Page 7
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93A MAP OF GREECE AND THE ǼGEAN SEA, showing some of the islands of great strategic value in relation to Turkey and the Dardanelles, which are reported to have been captured by the Nazis. The islands of Thasos, Lemnos, Mitylene, and Chios are claimed by the Germans to be in their hands, as also is Samothrace, the northern island of the two between Lemnos and Thasos. All of northern and central Greece has been captured by the Germans and Italians, and German communiques claim the seizure of Corinth and Patras in Peloponnesus (Morea). Otago Daily Times, Issue 24594, 30 April 1941, Page 7
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