I learned something new today

Over 300,000 Greeks starved to death during World War II.

I had no idea.

I also read in today’s Herald Sun that the Nazis shot many Greeks for helping Australian soldiers (by giving them food, for example) during World War II.

This has lowered my view of the Nazis, were that possible.

It says something about the scale of carnage that occurred during World War II, that I hadn’t heard anything about the starvation of 300,000 people in one nation despite reading a number of books about that war (not to mention TV documentaries and other sources). Makes me wonder what else I haven’t heard about.