Manolis or Emmanouil Paterakis (
Greek: Εμμανουήλ (Μανώλης) Πατεράκης)[1]: 158 was a member of the
Cretan resistance during
World War II, who lived in the village of
Koustogerako in the then-province of
Selino. In English language sources, he also appears as Manoli Paterakis.[2]
As the war continued, the Germans murdered Paterakis's father and his two brothers.[7] After the war, he found himself without work. Considerably later on, the Germans, ignorant of the part which he had played in taking Kreipe prisoner, brought him to work and appointed him a guard at the
Maleme German military cemetery.
^His formal
Christian name in Greek was Εμμανουήλ, (
translit.Emmanuel,
transcr.Immanouil, "
Immanuel". Μανώλης is a less formal variety of this name — Kiriakopoulos, GC, The Nazi Occupation of Crete, 1941–1945 (Greenwood Publishing Group:1995)
ISBN0-275-95277-0
^Manoli is the
accusative form of his name, and as the accusative functions as an informal
vocative in Modern Greek, this is how his British colleagues would have addressed him and remembered his name.