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1944, Zourtsa. German soldiers come to Zourtsa (Nea Figalia) to have fun and engage in sexual acts with the locals against their will.
While they are in Zourtsa and drinking, in a fight they kill a resident of the area while a while later, suddenly 2 of them disappear (reports say that they were massacred by the Zourtsans for the murder of the premises) with the result that the The rest leave and head to their base in Tholos (Kato Figalia then) to inform the base of their disappearance.
On the Korakofolia bridge between Nea Figalia and Lepreo, the first line of Germans are ambushed by some guerrillas from Zourtsa (they had arrived very quickly due to the murder of the local) and the surrounding villages, killing one of the soldiers and wounding to another. army’s officer.
Grenades fall on the Germans as a Russian officer from the hill near the bridge with heavy weapons (said to be a semi-machine gun) constantly fires at the German phalanx, forcing the Germans to run to catch the escaping guerrillas in the last minute. Tholou stream outlet. However, the ambush did not have the desired effect due to carelessness in its organization and resulted in the outrage of the German troops.
A few hours later, the Germans, believing that the ambush was laid by Lepreats, enter the Lepreo with savagery, burning it from end to end and killing 9 inhabitants and then burning them. Among them is a mother with her baby, whom they literally kill.
Many years ago in Zourtsa and on the mountain of Vagena in front of the town, a huge “NO” was built with a Greek flag with stones, something that over the years and the climatic conditions was destroyed. In the 2020s, at the initiative of the Community of Nea Figalia, the large NO on the mountain was redesigned as well as the Greek flag to remind young and old that the area resisted, as in 1821.
The video is an initiative of the page “FIGALIAnews24”, while the sources of the above information are registered by: Asimina Keki Papakyriakopoulou, Vassilis Economopoulos, Petros Baladima, Grigoris Vlamis de Zourtsa.
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