Italian troops, stationed at the dam, were looting and taking whatever they wanted: animals, food, etc. They harassed the teacher until one day the residents decided to send her away in secret. The school was temporarily closed, and it reopened in 1947. When the Nazis later settled in the settlement, they set up a camp at the hospital, which they had properly transformed into a camp even before the war had started. Many incidents of violence by the occupiers were recorded, like the case of the brutal beating of a young man by a German guard at the dam one day. When the Greek youth was returning to his home, the German guard forbade him to enter. The young man cursed in Greek but the guard understood what he said and beat him badly. The young man's father complained to the commander about the guard in a clever way, saying: "You came to make the world a better place as you claim. But look what one of your men did to my son. For just one word, he had to be beaten like this?” After that, the German commander transferred the soldier οutside Greece.