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  2. Military history of Greece during World War II - Wikipedia

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    The military history of Greece during World War II began on 28 October 1940, when the Italian Army invaded Greece from Albania, beginning the Greco-Italian War. The Greek Army temporarily halted the invasion and pushed the Italians back into Albania. The Greek successes forced Nazi Germany to intervene.

  3. Axis occupation of Greece - Wikipedia

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    Greece's recovery from the devastation of World War II and the Axis occupation lagged far behind that of the rest of Europe. [174] About 8% of the Greek population of c. 7 million had died during the conflicts and the occupation. Sanitation conditions were deplorable, and the health of those who had survived was imperilled by a resurgence of ...

  4. German invasion of Greece - Wikipedia

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    The German invasion of Greece, also known as the Battle of Greece or Operation Marita (German: Unternehmen Marita [13]), were the attacks on Greece by Italy and Germany during World War II. The Italian invasion in October 1940, which is usually known as the Greco-Italian War , was followed by the German invasion in April 1941.

  5. Opinion: Greek resistance during WWII remains a model for ...

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    Every year on October 28, there are parades and ceremonies in both Greece and around the world to commemorate the Greeks’ resistance to Italian and German forces during World War II. The ...

  6. New Order (Nazism) - Wikipedia

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    Nazi Germany's aggressive desire for territorial expansion ranks as a major cause of World War II. [ 3 ] There remains historical contention on the ultimate scope involved with the New Order: it may have exclusively been a continental project limited to the scope of Europe , or a broader roadmap for an eventual German-centric world government .

  7. Hellenic State (1941–1944) - Wikipedia

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    After the fall of Greece, the puppet government of General Georgios Tsolakoglou was appointed Prime minister of the new Greek government on April 30, 1941. His main qualification for the position was that he surrendered to the Wehrmacht the week before 20 April 1941, against the express orders of his commanding officer Alexandros Papagos . [ 2 ]

  8. Greek government-in-exile - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of Stott's visit was to discuss having the Security Battalions loyal to the Hellenic State switch over to serving the government-in-exile when it returned to Greece as Stott asserted to his German hosts that he did not want EAM to establish control over Greece, and was willing to assent to having Greek collaborators be employed by ...

  9. Greek Film on Notorious WWII Massacre Sparks Controversy as ...

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    A new film about a notorious Nazi massacre in Greece during World War II has angered the descendants of the victims amid accusations that the filmmakers falsified historical events, with a victims ...