{"id":4095,"date":"2026-02-21T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T10:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amphiktyon.org\/?p=4095"},"modified":"2026-02-21T12:13:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T10:13:00","slug":"the-photographs-and-the-furies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amphiktyon.org\/?p=4095","title":{"rendered":"THE PHOTOGRAPHS AND THE FURIES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Konstantinos Konstantinidis \u2013 Amphiktyon<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was shaken by the photographs \u2014
dramatic,
with heroic figures
in the yard of the Shooting Range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without cause.
Without trial.
Crimes that will weigh
upon the Germans forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I call them authentic,
genuine,
proof of heinous criminals.
Most precious.
They will speak the hidden Truth
so that, at last, the lies may end<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and the Truth may shine.
War Reparations are not a fairy tale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most homes were blood-stained.
I lived the madness,
the blood and the agony.
The Occupation \u2014 a hell that does not fade.
I remember it as if it were yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the Sacred Way.
I saw the convoy descending.
And from the trucks \u2014
a stentorian voice.
Men condemned to death.
On their way to execution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lying in the truck beds,
bound like parcels.
Guards standing upright,
bayonets fixed.
And they were singing.
And singing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resistance marching songs
that were heard in Aigaleo,
in every neighborhood.
A voice that even now,
almost a century later,
shakes me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did not see faces.
But I saw bravery.
Calm before death.
A serene gaze.
Their final battle \u2014 victorious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Distomo,
in Kerdylia,
in Kandanos,
in the mountains of Trifylia \u2014
holocausts.
Villages burned.
Women in black.
Children orphaned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And my mother \u2014
five children,
without a home,
without bread
in occupied Athens.
Hunger.
Famine.
Misery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The crimes remained silent.
Covered over.
Forgotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But a crime,
if it is not judged,
haunts.
Festers.
It does not fade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the photographs
demand Justice.
\u201cJustice, our sons,\u201d
whisper the executed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Genocides
do not vanish through denial.
They create tempests through the ages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The photographs and the Furies
will judge.
As long as the Trial is pending
hatred swells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And only when Justice comes
will be restored
friendship,
alliance,
peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(21\/2\/26)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amphiktyon \u2013 Major General (ret.) Konstantinos Konstantinidis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Konstantinos Konstantinidis \u2013 Amphiktyon I was shaken by the photographs \u2014dramatic,with heroic figuresin the yard of the Shooting Range. Without cause.Without trial.Crimes that will weighupon the Germans forever. I call them authentic,genuine,proof of heinous criminals.Most precious.They will speak the hidden Truthso that, at last, the lies may end and the Truth may shine.War Reparations are … <\/p>\n

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