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... under Axis control, fell to German paratroopers after nearly two weeks of hard fighting. For Greece, the Axis occupation, “the long night of barbarism” in the words of Winston Churchill, was to persist until the second week of October 1944, when the last German troops finally evacuated the country. ...
... under Axis control, fell to German paratroopers after nearly two weeks of hard fighting. For Greece, the Axis occupation, “the long night of barbarism” in the words of Winston Churchill, was to persist until the second week of October 1944, when the last German troops finally evacuated the country. ...
Britain and the Campaigns in Greece and Crete in 1941
... have been over, but German bombers were still striking each night at British towns and cities. At sea, German submarines were gaining the upper hand. The only glimmer of success was in northern Africa, where Commonwealth forces had advanced into Italian Libya. It hardly seemed that Britain was in a ...
... have been over, but German bombers were still striking each night at British towns and cities. At sea, German submarines were gaining the upper hand. The only glimmer of success was in northern Africa, where Commonwealth forces had advanced into Italian Libya. It hardly seemed that Britain was in a ...
Crete during the Second World War.
... The Jews were forced to flee, to leave their homes, their workplaces, stores and dear friends. They lost in ten minutes whatever they had achieved through many years of hard work. Suddenly they were being pressed along out of their neighbourhood by murderous soldiers and marched down to the harbour ...
... The Jews were forced to flee, to leave their homes, their workplaces, stores and dear friends. They lost in ten minutes whatever they had achieved through many years of hard work. Suddenly they were being pressed along out of their neighbourhood by murderous soldiers and marched down to the harbour ...
The First Victory: Greece in the Second World War
... Italian army launched a cross-border invasion from positions in Albania— Mussolini chose the date to commemorate the eighteenth anniversary of his ascendancy to power as Italy’s prime minister. Three hours before the invasion began, Greece’s head of state, Ioannis Metaxas, was given an ultimatum by ...
... Italian army launched a cross-border invasion from positions in Albania— Mussolini chose the date to commemorate the eighteenth anniversary of his ascendancy to power as Italy’s prime minister. Three hours before the invasion began, Greece’s head of state, Ioannis Metaxas, was given an ultimatum by ...
Greeks in World War II
... "On the 28th of October 1940 Greece was given a deadline of three hours to decide on war or peace but even if a three day or three week or three year were given, the response would have been the same." "The Greeks taught dignity throughout the centuries. When the entire world had lost all hope, the ...
... "On the 28th of October 1940 Greece was given a deadline of three hours to decide on war or peace but even if a three day or three week or three year were given, the response would have been the same." "The Greeks taught dignity throughout the centuries. When the entire world had lost all hope, the ...
The Greek Civil War in Retrospect - Stathis Kalyvas
... reflected in the historiography of the Civil War. The first leftwing interpretations began to appear in Greece. The main lines of the leftist thesis (which, of course, comes in many versions) can be summarized as follows: EAM was a broad-based, mostly non-communist mass movement, which expressed the ...
... reflected in the historiography of the Civil War. The first leftwing interpretations began to appear in Greece. The main lines of the leftist thesis (which, of course, comes in many versions) can be summarized as follows: EAM was a broad-based, mostly non-communist mass movement, which expressed the ...
OCTOBER 28, 1940 – OCTOBER 28, 2007
... war”). Small and poor Greece replied with “OXI” – “NO” to the Axis aggression. The Greeks did not hesitate to use the answer of Spartan King Leonidas and his “300” at the pass of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. to the surrender proposals from the invading armies of the Persian Empire – “Molon Lave” (“Come a ...
... war”). Small and poor Greece replied with “OXI” – “NO” to the Axis aggression. The Greeks did not hesitate to use the answer of Spartan King Leonidas and his “300” at the pass of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. to the surrender proposals from the invading armies of the Persian Empire – “Molon Lave” (“Come a ...
Map of Ancient Greece
... Weakened city-states; Rivalry thus facilitated the between Greek city- invasion of the states after Macedonians lead by the Persian (Phillip II and Wars. Alexander the Great) ...
... Weakened city-states; Rivalry thus facilitated the between Greek city- invasion of the states after Macedonians lead by the Persian (Phillip II and Wars. Alexander the Great) ...
Axis occupation of Greece
... wealthy provincial towns into refugee settlements". Increasing attacks by partisans in the latter years of the occupation resulted in a number of executions and wholesale slaughter of civilians in reprisal. In total, the Germans executed some 21,000 Greeks, the Bulgarians executed some 40,000 and th ...
... wealthy provincial towns into refugee settlements". Increasing attacks by partisans in the latter years of the occupation resulted in a number of executions and wholesale slaughter of civilians in reprisal. In total, the Germans executed some 21,000 Greeks, the Bulgarians executed some 40,000 and th ...
World War II, Occupation, and the Civil War in Greece, 1940-1949
... The Greek Civil War was fought from 1946 to 1949 between the Greek governmental army, backed by the United Kingdom and United States, and the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE), the military branch of the Greek Communist Party (KKE), backed by Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania. One of the first conflict ...
... The Greek Civil War was fought from 1946 to 1949 between the Greek governmental army, backed by the United Kingdom and United States, and the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE), the military branch of the Greek Communist Party (KKE), backed by Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania. One of the first conflict ...
Ohrana
Ohrana (Bulgarian: Охрана with meaning: ""Protection""); (Greek: Οχράνα) were armed collaborationist detachments organized by the former Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) structures, composed of Bulgarians (i.e. pro-Bulgarian oriented parts of the Slavophone population) in Nazi-occupied Greek Macedonia during World War II and led by officers of the Bulgarian Army. Bulgaria was interested in acquiring Thessalonica and Western Macedonia, under Italian and German occupation and hoped to sway the allegiance of the 80,000 Slavs who lived there at the time. The appearance of Greek partisans in those areas persuaded the Axis to allow the formation of these collaborationst detachments. However, during late 1944, when the Axis appeared to be losing the war, many Slavophone Nazi collaborators, Ohrana members and VMRO regiment volunteers fled to the opposite camp by joining the newly founded communist SNOF. The organization managed to recruit initially 1,000 up to 3,000 armed men from the Slavophone community that lived in the western part of Greek Macedonia.