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15 April 2021 10:14am Eighty years ago – on 16 April – Agios Dimitrios and its valley to the west of Katerini were visited by fire and fury as its Allied defenders faced the German invasion of Greece. Thessaloniki and the defences of northern Greece had already fallen. Now the Germans were trying to force their way through the mountains passes and valleys that led to Greece’s central plane and on to the south. This advance would see major battles take place at Vevi and Servia to the west and Platamonas and the Tempe Valley to the east. These battles were fought in early April, with Anzac and British troops joining with Greek Army forces outnumbered by superior German forces. Though they all succeeded in holding up the German advance for crucial days, enabling the withdrawal of Allied forces, this was at a terrible cost in terms of lives and equipment lost.

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