FOUND! The lost Panzer Division and the wreck of “Marburg” full of German tanks and guns

 Pierre Kosmidis

The photo from the Italian Archivio Centrale Dello Stato files, reason for the investigation of the ship’s identity – Photo Credit: LUCE/George Karelas

Research: George Karelas and Gerasimos Sotiropoulos|
Photos: As credited
Text: Pierre Kosmidis
By  May 21st, 1941 the Germans had concluded the invasion of mainland Greece, codenamed “Operation Marita” and were in the process of attacking the island of Crete, with an airborne assault that was initiated the day before, on May 20th, codenamed “Operation Merkur”.

An Allied POW sitting atop a German tank, during “Operation Marita”, the invasion of Greece, April-May 1941 Photo Credit: Bundesarchiv