Greek resistance

Greek resistance
Part of World War II in the Balkans
The areas of Greece captured by the Axis powers.
Date April 1941 - October 1944 Location Axis occupied Greece Result Resistance and Allied victory
Belligerents
Germany  Italy (until Sep. 1943)  Bulgaria (until Sep. 1944)  Hellenic State	Resistance Groups EAM/ELAS EDES PAO EOK Support:  United Kingdom SOE Greek government-in-exile

The Greek resistance (Greek: Εθνική Αντίσταση, romanized: Ethnikí Antístasi, meaning "National Resistance"), was the fight of armed and unarmed groups of many political views, against the Axis powers that had captured Greece in 1941 and their puppet state, the Hellenic State. It went from 1941 to 1944, during World War II. The largest group was the communist-influenced EAM-ELAS. The second-largest was the National Republican Greek League.

The Greek Resistance is considered to have been one of the strongest resistance movements in Nazi-occupied Europe. Its partisans, were men and women known as andartes and andartisses (Greek: αντάρτες, αντάρτισσες, romanized: antártes, antártises, meaning "male rebels and female rebels"). They controlled much of the countryside before the Germans left Greece in the end of 1944.

References

Sources

• R. Capell, Simiomata: A Greek Note Book 1944–45, London 1946
• Eudes, Dominique (1973). The Kapetanios: Partisans and Civil War in Greece, 1943–1949. Translated by John Howe. New York and London: Monthly Review Press. ISBN 978-0-85345-275-1.
• Clogg, Richard (1986), A Short History of Modern Greece, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-33804-2
• N.G.L. Hammond, Venture into Greece: With the Guerillas, 1943–44, London, 1983. (Like Woodhouse, he was a member of the British Military Mission)
• Hammond, N. G. L. (1991). "The Allied Military Mission in Northwest Macedonia, 1943–44". Balkan Studies: Biannual Publication of the Institute for Balkan Studies. 32 (1): 107–144. ISSN 2241-1674.
• Howarth, Patrick (1980), Undercover: The Men and Women of the Special Operations Executive, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-7100-0573-1
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• Knopp, Guido (2009). Die Wehrmacht – Eine Bilanz (in German). Goldmann. ISBN 978-3-442-15561-3.
• Mark Mazower (2001). Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941–44. United States: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-08923-3.
• Papastratis, Prokopis (1984), British Policy towards Greece during the Second World War, 1941–1944, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-24342-1
• Perdue, Robert E. Jr. (2010). Behind the Lines in Greece: The Story of OSS Operational Group II. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse. ISBN 978-1-4490-6789-2. LCCN 2010900278.
• Shrader, Charles R. (1999). The Withered Vine: Logistics and the Communist Insurgency in Greece, 1945–1949. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-275-96544-0.
• Woodhouse, Christopher Montague (2002), The Struggle for Greece, 1941–1949, C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, ISBN 978-1-85065-487-2
• Reginald Leeper, When Greek Meets Greek: On the War in Greece, 1943–1945
• United States Army Center of Military History, German Antiguerrilla Operations in The Balkans (1941–1944) Washington, D.C.: United States Army.
• Hondros, John L. (1983), Occupation and Resistance: The Greek Agony, New York: Pella Publishing

Other websites

• Martyr Cities & Villages of Greece Network 1940–1945 (in Greek)
• Official site of the documentary film The 11th Day which contains an extensive interview with Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, and documents the Battle of Trahili, filmed in 2003. Archived 2019-01-16 at the Wayback Machine

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