Alexis Tsipras couldn’t have picked a more symbolic place to show his voters that he is a prime minister like no other Greece has seen before — — and that he is truly serious about standing up to the Germans.
It was here, on the outskirts of Athens, that German occupying troops shot a total of some 600 resistance fighters — some just before the end of the war, on May 1, 1944 — along with roughly 200 communists from the Haidari concentration camp. The youngest victim was only 14 years old…Der Spiegel