{"id":1065,"date":"2024-10-22T14:11:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T14:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/?page_id=1065"},"modified":"2025-09-30T12:01:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T12:01:44","slug":"the-kidnapping-of-kreipe-patrick-leight-fermor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/collections\/historical-collection\/the-kidnapping-of-kreipe-patrick-leight-fermor\/","title":{"rendered":"The kidnapping of Kreipe &#8211; Patrick Leight Fermor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011), British philhellene, travel-writer, scholar and soldier, was a deeply-cultivated man with an adventurous spirit, great courage and immense generosity of soul.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Fluent in Modern Greek, he was appointed as liaison officer to the Greek Army, in Albania. After the collapse of the Greek front, he was dispatched to Crete. There, disguised as a shepherd and with the code-name Michalis or Philedem, he fought in the mountains, together with the Cretan guerrillas against the German conqueror.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">In April 1944 he led the operation to kidnap the German Military Commander of Crete, General Heinrich Kreipe. With a band of Cretans and Britons, among them Stanley \u2018Billy\u2019 Moss, they abducted Kreipe from Herakleion, together with his auto- mobile, which they abandoned on a beach near Rethymnon. They then continued on foot up to Anogeia and from there, after an eventful and dangerous course, arrived at Rodakino, from where the German general was taken by sea to Cairo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Fermour removed from the car, an Opel, the little metal flags-emblems of the German Commander, which in accordance with Fermour\u2019s wish, are now held by the Historical and Folk Art Museum of Rethymnon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011), British philhellene, travel-writer, scholar and soldier, was a deeply-cultivated man with an adventurous spirit, great courage and immense generosity of soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":433,"parent":970,"menu_order":38,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-collections-historical.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1065","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411,"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1065\/revisions\/2411"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}