During the Second World War, soldiers of the German Wehrmacht destroyed over a hundred places in Greece. In the process, they shot tens of thousands of Greeks, often as a so-called punitive measure.

Michael Mitrovic is of Serbian descent and has spent his entire professional life working in the field of language, voice and speech. He studied Slavic philology, German language and literature, Balkan studies and phonetics, and has worked as a speech therapist, early intervention teacher and translator.
His publications on Greece include, among other topics, 'Das Meteora Wanderbuch' and 'Meteora - zwischen Himmel und Erde'. Both books have also been published in English under the titles 'Hiking Meteora Monasteries' and 'Meteora - Between Heaven and Earth'.