When Hitler's "Lords of Greece" Paid For What They Did
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When Nazi Germany invaded Greece in April 1941, the country entered more than three years of Axis occupation. As resistance spread, German forces increasingly relied on local collaborators to help maintain control. Among the most feared figures to emerge from this system was Friedrich “Fritz” Schubert, a German army interpreter who became commander of the collaborationist unit known as the Jagdkommando Schubert. Born in Dortmund in 1897, Schubert had lived in Turkey and Egypt before returning to Germany during the Second World War. His knowledge of Greek, Turkish, Italian and Arabic made him useful to the German occupation authorities, and in 1941 he was sent to Crete. There he gradually moved from interpreting and counterintelligence work to commanding an armed group of Greek collaborators. Known locally as the Schuberei, the unit was used to hunt resistance fighters and people suspected of supporting them. Granted extensive authority by Generalleutnant Bruno Bräuer, Schubert and his
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