Examines Fritz Schubert's brutal actions and atrocities across occupied Crete and Macedonia during WWII.

Hitler's Hunting Squad in Southern Europe traces the violent path of Fritz Schubert and his Greek 'hunting squad' across occupied Crete and Macedonia, offering a complete translation of Thanasis Fotiou’s comprehensive study on the German Lieutenant during World War II.

The author's research reveals previously unknown aspects of Schubert's life and his actions as an officer, including the murder and torture of civilians, and the looting and burning of homes.

Fritz Schubert, born in 1897, joined the German Forces in 1914 and concluded his service in Turkey, where he settled and married. By 1934, he had joined the National Socialist Party, influenced by Nazi ideology and propaganda. Fluent in several languages, he trained at the School of Interpreters under the reserve army's administration, attaining the rank of Unteroffizier. Hitler intended for Crete to play a significant role in the Middle East and Egypt due to its strategic oil reserves.

In 1947, a special commissioner's report on Schubert's hunting squad stated, 'They murdered, they tortured in the most brutal ways numerous civilians, they looted and burned many homes. Generally, the arrival of Schubert's gang signaled unrelenting plunder, marked by tears, pain, and bloodshed.'

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword: Stratos N. Dordanas
• Abbreviations
• Foreword
• Author’s Foreword
• Part I: Schubert in Crete (August 1941–January 1944)
  • Chapter 1 The Identity of Schubert
    • The facts
    • The myth
  • Chapter 2 Schubert; the Spy Activities During the First Period (August 1941–July 1943)
    • Resistance and German retaliation
    • Crime in the village of Mount Rethymnon: the beginning of a bloody journey
    • Schubert in Heraklion: cooperation with the Espionage Office under Hartmann
    • The incident at the village of Krousonas Heraklion
    • The first Schuberites from Krousonas
    • Schubert’s crimes and terror in the district of Heraklion
  • Chapter 3 From Schubert to Hartman and the Consequences
    • German oppressive measures and the weakening of the Cretan resistance
    • Schubert’s integration into the Military Police
    • Raid on Meskla Kydonia ( July 1943)
  • Chapter 4 Schubert as Head of Greek Interception Squad
    • General Brauer’s experiment
    • The assembly and powers of “Schubert’s Hunting Commandos”: a state within a state
    • Social make-up, mission and organization of “Schubert’s Hunting Gang”
  • Chapter 5 Schubert’s Activities During the Second Period (August 1943–January 1944)
    • The first brutalities in the provinces of Chania and Rethymnon
    • The officers of Heraklion under the surveillance of Schubert, capetan Bantouvas and the German reprisals in the province of Viannos
    • Schubert’s role in the annihilation of EOK Heraklion
    • Schubert’s last brutalities in the villages of Rethymnon, Chania and Lasithi Kali Sykia
    • Kallikratis
    • Schuberite crimes in the villages of Lasithi, Heraklion and Chania
  • Chapter 6 The Distancing of Schubert from Crete (11 January 1944)
    • New Years Day 1944: an unfortunate day
    • German measures of appeasement, the role of Minister Passadakis and Schubert’s expulsion
    • Schubert and his gang’s toll of monstrosity in Crete
• Part II: Schubert in Macedonia (February–October 1944)
  • Chapter 1 Schubert and the Armed Anti-communist Forces in Central Macedonia
  • Chapter 2 Giannitsa: Vengeance Begins
  • Chapter 3 Schubert at the Villages of Western Halkidiki (18th April–5th August 1944)
    • Nea Gonia: Schubert targeted by attacks of ΕΛΑΣ Halkidiki
    • Enemies and friends of Schubert in Halkidiki
    • Nea Kallikrateia: Bastion of terror in the area
    • Peristera
    • Livadi
  • Chapter 4 Schubert at the Villages of Volvi (5th June–10th
    • August 1944)
    • Nea Apollonia: Schubert tamed?
    • Marathousa in flames (19th June)
    • Raid at Nea Madytos. Retaliation for a Schuberite killing
    • Asvestochori, day of terror and violence (26th July)
    • Schuberite deserters: the role of the ΕΠΟΝ women in Nea Apollonia
  • Chapter 5 Asvestochori, Last Base of Schubert (10th August–28th September 1944)
    • Axioupolis Kilkis: Schubert the ‘General Coordinator’ of Security Battalions
    • The village of Hortiati during the Occupation
    • Preface to the holocaust of Hortiati
    • Why the ambush at Kamara?: the statement of K. Paschaloudis
    • The critics of the ΕΛΑΣ testimony
    • Atrocities
    • Kurt Waldheim and the coverup of the holocaust
    • Those responsible for the holocaust
    • The massacre at Giannitsa: Schubert’s last act of barbarism (14th September)
• Part III: Shubert: “Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing”
  • Chapter 1 From Anixiohori to Vienna
    • Krya Vrysi: the mysterious death of the doctor Chr. Mantzana
    • Austria: Dina Mantzana and Schubert’s eroticism
  • Chapter 2 Return to Greece (5 September 1945)
    • At Eleusis Airport: Facing police control
    • The story of the Austrian ballerina-informant
    • The identity of “Konstantinides” revealed
    • The “arrest” of Schubert in Thessaloniki and the mystery-pistol
• Part IV: Schubert and the Schuberites before the Courts
  • Chapter 1 Schuberite Trial in Athens (28 July–5 August 1947)
    • Witnesses and delaying tactics
    • The voice of Crete
    • The voice of Macedonia
    • The issue of Schubert’s blame
    • Thessaloniki: Schubert before the firing squad (22nd October 1947)
  • Chapter 2 Schuberite Trials, Ghost Trials
    • Thessaloniki: ‘Nine present, forty-nine in absentia’
    • Crete: Justice and Punishment
    • The end of the blood circle at Krousonas
    • Schuberite fugitives overseas
• Acknowledgements
• Notes
• Plates