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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] Historian William Woodruff lists 155,300 dead Greek civilians and 16,400 military deaths, [10] while David T. Zabecki lists 73,700 battle deaths and 350,000 civilian deaths. [11]
The occupation of Greece by the Axis Powers (Greek: Η Κατοχή, romanized: I Katochi, lit. 'the occupation') began in April 1941 after Nazi Germany invaded the Kingdom of Greece in order to assist its ally, Italy, in their ongoing war that was initiated in October 1940, having encountered major strategical difficulties.
Greece is the first foreign country to pledge aid to Turkey. 1999, 7 September: Athens is struck by the most devastating earthquake in Greece of the past 20 years. A total of 145 people die. The Turkish aid is the first to arrive. The two earthquakes initiate the Greek–Turkish earthquake diplomacy.
The Prelude to the Truman Doctrine: British Policy in Greece 1944–1947 (1982) Chandler, Geoffrey. The divided land: an Anglo-Greek tragedy, (Michael Russell Norwich, 1994) (ISBN 0859552152) Churchill, Winston S. The Second World War; Clive, Nigel. A Greek Experience: 1943–1948 (Michael Russell, 1985.) Frazier, Robert.
Year(s) (of "Part II") Battle Year Of Battle World War II (Greece in World War II) * 1939 1945 Western Front: 1939 1945 West European Campaign 1944 1945 The Invasion of Normandy: 1944 1944 Battle of Normandy (Operation Overlord) 1944 Mediterranean, Balkans, Middle East and African Fronts: 1940 1945 Balkans Campaign: 1940 1941 Greco-Italian War ...
Mamarelis, Argyrios (2003), The Special Operations Executive in Greece 1941–1944: The case of the 5/42 Regiment of Evzones (PDF) Papastratis, Prokopis (1984), British policy towards Greece during the Second World War, 1941–1944, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-24342-1; Lymberatos, Michalis P. (2007).
The Chortiatis Massacre (Greek: Σφαγή του Χορτιάτη) was a violent reprisal by the Greek collaborationist Security Battalions and German army troops during the Axis Occupation of Greece. On 2 September 1944, a platoon of Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) fighters ambushed a government water supply column outside Chortiatis ...
The Great Famine (Greek: Μεγάλος Λιμός, sometimes called the Grand Famine) was a period of mass starvation during the Axis occupation of Greece (1941–1944), during World War II. The local population suffered greatly during this period, while the Axis Powers initiated a policy of large-scale plunder.