Why did they hang that girl?

''because its jewish propaganda *beep* ^^ same as the scene when they execute the italian prisoners of war. that never happend.
this movie is same as schindlers list just a piece of propaganda to make germans look like bad guys''

Are you saying that the massacre of the Acqui Division didn't happen? Check your history dude.

I thought the implication of the kiss was that she went to have an affair with the German...having said that I don't think they would have hanged (not hung) her.

Ten of thousands of women in many different countries had affairs with German soldiers, some of them even had children and/or married them. In general they had their heads shaved and were paraded around as whores/sluts/etc., but rarely killed. (See "Blackbook" by Verhoeven for an excellent depiction of the sentiment towards such women.)

What do you expect from Hollywood though.

They hang her because she danced with the German soldier. And I found that very mean.

It is easier to kill the unsuspecting defenceless than the armed enemy, it happens during all invasions, insurrections, and civil wars, all sides commit such crimes.
From a practical viewpoint they should have thanked her for undermining enemy morale, most occupying forces try and enforce a non-fraternisation rule to avoid troops acquiring divided loyalties, or even a balanced view of the situation.
The structural effect is that we lose all sympathy for the resistance "fighters", who seem to have no effect on the occupation. I say "seem", in the context of the film, in reality I'm sure that was not the case.

She kissed the German. It may be hard to understand today, 60+ years since the war ended, but back during ww2 the Nazis were so hated by every country that they invaded that to even talk to a German could get you killed after the war. Nazis killed almost a half million greeks, something that is rarely talked about as the 6 million jews usually overshadow all the other nationalities that suffered at the hands of those murderers

She did something they community hated, so they punished her with death. The same thing happened in Zorba the Greek to Irene Pappas' character. The Crete villagers killed her because she chose to sleep with an Englishman and the local Greek boy who loved her drowned himself.

The scene (which wasn't in the book) was likely added to the movie to emphasize the brutality of the andartes (Greek communist resistance)...which at that point is a little ridiculous since the movie made the andartes out to be good guys rather than the thieves and corrupt tyrants that they were in the book.

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