Editing Battle of Crete (section)

===Civilian resistance===
Cretan civilians joined the battle with whatever weapons were at hand.<ref>{{harvnb|Beevor|1991|pp=116–117}}</ref> Most civilians went into action armed only with what they could gather from their kitchens or barns and several German parachutists were knifed or clubbed to death in olive groves. In one recorded incident, an elderly Cretan man clubbed a parachutist to death with his walking cane, before the German could disentangle himself from his parachute.<ref>{{harvnb|MacDonald|1995|pp=176–178}}.</ref> In another recorded incident, a local priest and his teenage son broke into a small village museum and took two rifles from the era of the [[Balkan Wars]] and sniped at German paratroops at landing zones. The Cretans also used captured German small arms. The Crete civilian actions against the Germans were not limited to harassment; mobs of armed civilians joined in the Greek counter-attacks at [[Kastelli Hill]] and Paleochora; the British and New Zealand advisers at these locations were hard pressed to prevent [[massacre]]s. Civilians also checked the Germans to the north and west of Heraklion and in the town centre.<ref>{{harvnb|MacDonald|1995|p=195}}.</ref>