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The German Secret Field Police in Greece, 1941–44. MacFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-1476667843. German Antiguerrilla Operations in The Balkans (1941–1944). Washington DC: Center of Military History. 1953. Helger, Bengt (1949). Ravitaillement de la Grèce, pendant l'occupation 1941–44 et pendant les premiers cinq mois après la liberation.
The number of 600,000 victims of the "great hunger" is mentioned in the entry dated 5 February 1942 of a "short diary of the resistance" (p. 118). An estimated 300,000 people died in the Great Famine (Greece) in 1941–1944. BBC News estimates Greece suffered at least 250,000 dead during the Axis occupation. [1]
Anglo-American relations with Greece: the coming of the Cold War 1942–47 (1991) Goulter-Zervoudakis, Christina. "The politicization of intelligence: The British experience in Greece, 1941–1944." Intelligence and National Security (1998) 13#1 pp: 165–194. Iatrides, John O., and Nicholas X. Rizopoulos.
1944, 14 October: Athens is liberated and the Greek government-in-exile returns, with George Papandreou as Premier. 1944, 18 October: Premier George Papandreou and his national unity government repatriate. 1944, 3 December: "Dekemvriana" (December events). 28 people are killed by British troops and policemen in Athens.
There are signs of civil war in Greece as the Communist-controlled National Liberation Front and the British-backed government seem irreconcilable. 28: Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr., dead of a heart attack on 12 July 1944, is posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his leadership and actions on D-Day at Utah Beach.
A crowd in Syntagma Square celebrates their liberation from Axis powers and the coming of the Papandreou Government (18 October 1944). By the summer of 1944, the Soviet forces advancing into Romania and towards Yugoslavia meant that the Germans still in the Balkans were at risk of being cut off.
In September 1944, a new collaborationist government was established at Vienna, formed by former collaborationist ministers. It was headed by Ektor Tsironikos. It ceased to exist after the withdrawal of German forces and the liberation of the country in October 1944. Tsolakoglou, Rallis and Logothetopoulos (in Germany, where he had escaped to ...
Operation Manna was the codeword for a Second World War operation by the British and Greek forces in Greece in mid-October 1944, following the gradual withdrawal of the German occupying forces from the country.