... The city's hemorrhage was enormous in human resources throughout its extent: executed by the German army, victims of civil conflicts, murdered by the Panhellenic Organization of Nationalist Battalions, known as Security Battalions, as well as by the Organization for the Protection of the People's Struggle (O.P.L.A.), the dead from the neighborhood street fights of the last weeks before liberation, and "bomb-stricken" from the Allied air raids.
Of course, if we want to calculate the total toll of human lives, all these should definitely be added to the enormous losses of the Jewish community in concentration camps, as well as all those Thessalonians who were killed in other parts of Greece or German-occupied Europe.