Manos Efstratiadis’ 1982 documentary “Pyrgoi 1944” focuses on the massacre in the northern Greek village of Pyrgoi during the German occupation in World War II.
At that time, the Wehrmacht, with the help of collaborators, raided the village in a so-called “cleansing operation” and killed approximately 350 people.
Efstratiadis, who was just 26 years old in 1982, produced “Pyrgoi 1944” for Greek state television. With the film, he addressed a topic that remains highly polarizing to this day, focusing not only on the Wehrmacht’s occupation of Greece but also on internal Greek entanglements. The military junta of the 1960s and 1970s had only just been overcome, but social inhibitions and divisions were far from over. Much of what is said in the film was heard for the first time on public television at that time—uncensored and without fear of legal consequences.
In February 2025, the FHXB Museum screened the documentary “Paradoxe Heimat” about Efstathios Chaitidis, a survivor of the Pyrgoi massacre.
With the screening of “Pyrgoi 1944” and a discussion, Luise Fakler, historian and curator, and Aristoteles Chaitidis, son of Efstathios Chaitidis, will build on this. In doing so, they will shed light not only on the events themselves but also on the various phases of how they were received in the decades that followed.
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April 2026
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