Four vaulted underground rooms built as shelter by Nazi German occupation forces in the foundations of Anatolia College’s historic Macedonia Hall, located at the Thessaloniki suburb of Pylea in northern Greece, will be used for experiential learning workshops for students aged 10-12, the college announced on Monday, according to ANA.
Anatolia College, a private, non-profit educational institution, was occupied by the German army between 1941-1944 and was used as its Balkan headquarters. It then included the adjacent land – presently the Agios Dimitrios Children’s Health Center – and the very spot where General Georgios Tsolakoglou came to sign the capitulation and surrender agreement of the Greek army to Wehrmacht forces on April 20, 1941.
Some of the subterranean rooms were used as a bomb shelter and others to store classified documents along with confiscated valuables from residents of the area.
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