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Just 18 years old, Pasaloglou was arrested during a raid, imprisoned in the Chaidari camp and interrogated at the notorious Gestapo headquarters on Athens' Merlin Street. Spiros witnesses fellow inmates being abused and murdered. Every day he fears that he will be next. He was then deported to Germany, first to the Neuengamme concentration camp and then to the Bremen-Farge satellite camp. The Germans force Pasaloglou to work on the construction of the Valentin bunker. He survived the forced labour, the death march in early April 1944 and the sinking of concentration camp ships in Lübeck Bay shortly before liberation. When he finally returns home, civil war is raging in Greece. As a communist resistance fighter, he is again threatened with arrest, this time by his compatriots.

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Pasaloglou's report is rough, direct, unpolished and therefore intense. His fate is representative of 10,000 other fates and of the brutal German occupation regime of the Germans in Greece, a chapter of Nazi history that has been neglected in the culture of remembrance to this day.

– Memorial Bunker Valentin more

Chalemos recorded the experiences of the former concentration camp prisoner Spyros Pasaloglou and documented his story with numerous documents, resulting in a comprehensive contemporary document. Spyros Pasaloglou worked as a forced laborer at the “Valentin” submarine bunker near Bremen-Farge for eight months, among other things.

– A. Tsingas more