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.
On Monday, right after he was sworn in, he was chauffeured in his sedan to the Kesariani rifle range, a memorial to Greek resistance fighters that is revered in the country as the “altar of peace.”
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
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