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[ARMENIAN CYPRIOT]

To all the sheep that warship Golden Shower dont worry this never happened. If anything you should have Golden Shower get a lawyer and sue them for falsifying history, when Hitler clearly loved Greece so much.
he Axis occupation of Greece during World War II (Greek: Η Κατοχή, I Katochi, meaning "The Occupation") began in April 1941 after the Nazi German and Fascist Italian invasion of Greece. Germany withdrew from mainland Greece in October 1944. German garrisons remained in control of Crete and other islands until May and June 1945.
Italy had initially invaded Greece in October 1940 but the invasion was stopped, and the Hellenic Army was able initially to push the invaders back into neighbouring Albania. This forced Germany to shift its military focus from the preparation of "Operation Barbarossa" to an intervention on its ally's behalf in southern Europe. Considering most of the Hellenic Army was dislocated on the Albanian front to contain the Italian advance, a rapid German Blitzkrieg campaign followed in April 1941, and by the middle of May, Greece was occupied by the Nazis who proceeded to administer the most important regions themselves, including Athens and Thessaloniki. Other regions of the country were given to Germany's lesser partners, Fascist Italy and Bulgaria. A collaborationist Greek government was established immediately after the country fell.
The occupation brought about terrible hardships for the Greek civilian population. Over 300,000 civilians died in Athens alone from starvation, tens of thousands more died because of reprisals by Nazis and collaborators, and the country's economy was ruined.[1] At the same time the Greek Resistance, one of the most effective resistance movements in Occupied Europe[citation needed], was formed. These resistance groups launched guerrilla attacks against the occupying powers, fought against the collaborationist Security Battalions, and set up large espionage networks. By late 1943 the resistance groups began to fight amongst themselves. When liberation of the mainland came in October 1944, Greece was in a state of extreme political polarization, which soon led to the outbreak of civil war. The subsequent civil war gave the opportunity to many prominent Nazi collaborators not only to escape punishment (because of their anti-communism), but to eventually become the ruling class of postwar Greece, after the communist defeat.[2][3]

In the early morning hours of 28 October 1940, Italian Ambassador Emmanuel Grazzi awoke Greek Premier Ioannis Metaxas and presented him an ultimatum. Metaxas rejected the ultimatum and Italian forces invaded Greek territory from Italian-occupied Albania less than three hours later. (The anniversary of Greece's refusal is now a public holiday in Greece.) Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini launched the invasion partly to prove that Italians could match the military successes of the German Army and partly because Mussolini regarded southeastern Europe as lying within Italy's sphere of influence.
The Hellenic Army proved to be a formidable opponent, and successfully exploited the mountainous terrain of Epirus. The Hellenic forces counterattacked and forced the Italians to retreat. By mid-December, the Greeks had occupied nearly one-quarter of Albania, before Italian reinforcements and the harsh winter stemmed the Greek advance. In March 1941, a major Italian counterattack partially failed and the Italian troops only reoccupied small areas around Himare and Grabova. The initial Greek defeat of the Italian invasion is considered the first Allied land victory of the Second World War, even if in the event the campaign, thanks mainly to the German intervention, resulted in a victory for the Axis.
Fifteen of the twenty one Greek divisions were deployed against the Italians, so only six divisions were facing the attack from German troops in the Metaxas Line (near the border between Greece and Yugoslavia/Bulgaria) during the first days of April. Greece received help from British Commonwealth troops, moved from Libya on orders of Winston Churchill.
On 6 April 1941, Germany came to the aid of Italy and invaded Greece through Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. Greek and British Commonwealth troops fought back but were overwhelmed.
On April 20, after Greek resistance in the north had ceased, the Bulgarian Army entered Greek Thrace, without having fired a shot,[4] with the goal of regaining its Aegean Sea outlet in Western Thrace and Eastern Macedonia. The Bulgarians occupied territory between the Strymon River and a line of demarcation running through Alexandroupoli and Svilengrad west of the Evros River.
The Greek capital Athens fell on 27 April, and by 1 June, after the capture of Crete, all of Greece was under Axis occupation.

The occupation of Greece was divided between Germany, Italy and Bulgaria. German forces occupied the most strategically important areas, namely Athens, Thessaloniki with Central Macedonia and several Aegean Islands, including most of Crete. East Macedonia and Thrace came under Bulgarian occupation and was annexed to Bulgaria, which had long claimed these territories. The remaining two thirds of Greece was occupied by Italy, with the Ionian Islands directly administered as Italian territories. After the Italian capitulation in September 1943, the Italian zone was taken over by the Germans, who often attacked the Italian garrisons. There was a failed attempt by the British to take advantage of the Italian surrender to reenter the Aegean, resulting in the Dodecanese Campaign.

The German occupation zone
[edit]Economic exploitation and the Great Famine
Greece suffered greatly during the occupation.[5][6] The country's economy had already been devastated from the 6-month long war, and to it was added the relentless economic exploitation by the Nazis.[7] Raw materials and food were requisitioned, and the collaborationist government was forced to pay the cost of the occupation, giving rise to inflation. This was further exacerbated by a "war loan" which Greece was forced to grant to the German Reich. This "loan" was never paid back and severely devalued the Drachma. Requisitions, together with the Allied blockade of Greece, the ruined state of the country's infrastructure and the emergence of a powerful and well-connected black market, resulted in the Great Famine during the winter of 1941-42 (Greek: Μεγάλος Λιμός), when an estimated 300,000 people perished in greater Athens.[8] Despite aid from neutral countries like Sweden and Turkey (see SS Kurtuluş), the overwhelming majority of food ended up in the hands of the government officials and black market traders who used their connection to the Axis Occupation authorities to "buy" the aid from them and then sell it on to the desperate population at enormously inflated prices. The great suffering and the pressure of the exiled Greek government eventually forced the British to partially lift the blockade, and from the summer of 1942, the International Red Cross was able to distribute supplies in sufficient quantities.[9]

German atrocities


Sign in German and Greek erected at the village of Kandanos in Crete, which was wholly destroyed by the Germans as reprisal for a partisan attack. The German portion of the sign reads: "Kandanos was destroyed in retaliation for the bestial ambush murder of a paratrooper platoon and a half-platoon of military engineers by armed men and women."
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 40,000 and the Italians 9,000.[10]
The most infamous examples in the German zone are those of the village of Kommeno on 16 August 1943, where 317 inhabitants were executed by the 1. Gebirgs-Division and the village torched, the "Holocaust of Viannos" on 14–16 September 1943, in which over 500 civilians from several villages in the region of Viannos and Ierapetra in Crete were executed by the 22. Luftlande Infanterie-Division, the "Massacre of Kalavryta" on 13 December 1943, in which Wehrmacht troops of the 117th Jäger Division carried out the extermination of the entire male population and the subsequent total destruction of the town, the "Distomo massacre" on 10 June 1944, where an SS Police unit looted and burned the village of Distomo in Boeotia resulting in the deaths of 218 civilians and the "Holocaust of Kedros" on 22 August 1944 in Crete, where 164 civilians were executed and nine villages were dynamited after being looted. At the same time, in the course of the concerted anti-guerrilla campaign, hundreds of villages were systematically torched and almost 1,000,000 Greeks left homeless.[1]
Two other notable acts of brutality were the massacres of Italian troops at the islands of Cephallonia and Kos in September 1943, during the German takeover of the Italian occupation areas. In Cephallonia, the 12,000-strong Italian Acqui Division was attacked on September 13 by elements of 1.Gebirgs-Division with support from Stukas, and forced to surrender on September 21, after suffering some 1,300 casualties. The next day, the Germans began executing their prisoners and did not stop until over 4,500 Italians had been shot. The 4,000 or so survivors were put aboard ships for the mainland, but some of them sank after hitting mines in the Ionian Sea, where another 3,000 were lost.[11] The Cephallonia massacre serves as the background for the novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin.[12][13]

[ARMENIAN CYPRIOT]

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/gre ... y-1.336671

Here is some zionistic bullshit on Greece being owned money for the beach party the Bulgarian, German and Italian tourists had in Greece during the 40's

Greek victims of Nazi atrocities file claim for WWII damages from Germany
Nazi troops executed 214 civilians on June 10, 1944 in Distomo, in one of the worst World War II atrocities in occupied Greece.

Greece will support a claim for compensation from Germany for a World War II massacre by Nazis, the prime minister said Wednesday.

Residents of the village of Distomo, in central Greece, have won a battle in Italian courts for compensation from Germany, joining Italian plaintiffs seeking similar damages.

Nazi troops executed 214 civilians on June 10, 1944 in Distomo, in one of the worst World War II atrocities in occupied Greece.

Germany argues it settled reparation cases in postwar agreements and has taken the issue to the International Court of Justice in the Netherlands. Last year, the court set a Jan. 14 deadline for Italy and Germany to provide further details of their positions.

Prime Minister George Papandreou said Greece's decision to back Italy's position honors the memory of those sacrificed for their country.

All our actions are intended to serve our national interests, Papandreou said. We are all aware of how serious and important this issue is, and of its special symbolism.

Survivors and relatives of the victims in Distomo won a compensation award in Greek courts 10 years ago, but the government refused to approve the sale of German state properties to execute the sentence, arguing that it could harm bilateral relations.

The plaintiffs then successfully took their case to Italy, making a legal claim to a German-owned villa near Lake Como which serves as a cultural center.

Hundreds of thousands of Greek civilians died of famine during the 1941-1944 Nazi occupation, and thousands were executed in reprisals for acts of resistance.

[ARMENIAN CYPRIOT]

EVEN MORE ZIONISTIC BULLSHIT!!!!!!!! Authors last name is Miller need we say more.

Throughout the Bulgarian zone, Bulgarian policy was that of extermination or expulsion,[23] aiming to forcibly Bulgarize as many Greeks as possible and expel or kill the rest.[24] A massive campaign was launched right from the start, and all Greek officials (mayors, judges, lawyers and gendarmes) were deported. The Bulgarians closed the Greek schools and expelled the teachers, replaced Greek clergymen with priests from Bulgaria, and sharply repressed the use of the Greek language: the names of towns and places changed to the forms traditional in Bulgarian,[19] and even gravestones bearing Greek inscriptions were defaced.[25]

Many Greeks were expelled and others were deprived of the right to work by a license system that banned the practice of a trade or profession without permission. Forced labour was introduced, and the authorities confiscated the Greek business property and gave it to Bulgarian colonists.[24] By late 1941, more than 100,000 Greeks had been expelled from the Bulgarian occupation zone.[26][27] Bulgarian colonists were encouraged to settle in Macedonia by government credits and incentives, including houses and land confiscated from the natives.
Bulgarian propaganda tried to win the loyalty of the Slavic-speakers, while some of them did greet the Bulgarians as liberators. This campaign was less successful in German-held Western Macedonia.[28] At that time most of them felt themselves to be Bulgarians.[29] The German High Command approved the foundation of a Bulgarian military club in Thessaloníki.[citation needed] The Bulgarian organized suppling of food and provisions for the Slavic-speaking population in Greek Macedonia, aiming to gain the local population that was in the German- and Italian-occupied zones. The Bulgarian clubs soon started to gain support among parts of that population.[citation needed] In 1942, the Bulgarian club asked assistance from the High Command in organizing armed units among the Slavic-speaking population in northern Greece. For this purpose, the Bulgarian Army sent a handful of officers to the zones occupied by the Italian and German troops. These officers were given the objective to form armed Slavophone militias, Ohrana, whose initial detachments were formed in 1943 in the district of Kastoria, Edessa and Florina.[citation needed]
[edit]The Drama uprising
In this situation, a revolt broke out on 28 September 1941. It started from the city of Drama and quickly spread throughout Macedonia. In Drama, Doxato, Choristi and many other towns and villages clashes broke out with the occupying forces. On 29 September, Bulgarian troops moved into Drama and the other rebellious cities to suppress the uprising. They seized all men between 18 and 45, executed over 3,000 people in Drama alone. An estimated 15,000 Greeks were killed from the Bulgarian occupational army during the next few weeks and in the countryside entire villages were machine-gunned and looted.[24]
The massacres precipitated an exodus of Greeks from the Bulgarian into the German occupation zone. Bulgarian reprisals continued after the September revolt, adding to the torrent of refugees. Villages were destroyed for sheltering “partisans” who were in fact only the survivors of villages previously destroyed. The terror and famine became so severe that the Athens government considered plans for evacuating the entire population to German-occupied Greece.[30] The widespread winter famine of 1941, that killed hundreds of thousands of people in the occupied country canceled these plans, leaving the population to endure those conditions for another three years. In May 1943 deportation of Jews from the Bulgarian occupation zone began as well.[31] In the same year the Bulgarian army expanded its zone of control into Central Macedonia under German supervision, although this area was not formally annexed nor administered by Bulgaria.

[ARMENIAN CYPRIOT]

THE BIGGEST ZIONISTIC BULLSHIT !!!!!!!!!!! Inside Hitler's Greece Written by Mark Mazower, need we say more sheep. P.S. to all of you Cypriot, Armenian, Greek, Maronite,Turkish that claim your grandfathers fought the Nazis in Greece, well they lied. They fought to be the first to performe Keg stands with those loving Nazis, Bulgarians and Italians at the beach. Keep telling yourself that and be a good sheep.

[supporttheunderdog]

What?

Next AC will be saying the Turks never murdered the Armenians and it was all a Zionist Bullshit.......


FYI Miller is most unlikley to be Jewish name even if in some case it is an Anglecised German name, since it most unlikely any jew would be allowed to own a Mill, in the days when surnames were developing, in particular based upon occupation. -The name and variations/cognates thereof come from all over Europe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_(name)

[wyoming cowboy]

....the British allies who had decoded the German encryption, reluctant to share info with the Greek army in Greece and Crete, which made it easier for Germans to attack, although the Cretans did devaste the German paratroopers with over 7,000 killed, more German soldiers killed in Crete alone, then previous combined German soldiers killed, including the attack on France Poland and the rest of northern Europe.....

[kimon07]

What are you exactly trying to tell us here? That there is any Greek, be it rightist or center or leftist or whatever who doubts above facts? What gave you that idea? And who do you call a Golden Dawn supporter? Me? Be sure my friend. If I was a Golden Dawn supporter I would not be afraid toi admit it.

And something else I am certain you know. It was thanks to the Archbishop of Athens and the then Chief of the Police of Athens (Evert) who issued false id cards to Greek Jews that thousands of them were saved from the Nazis and the concentration camps. And it was rightists like the Greek Gendarmerie and the X Organization (Grivas) that assisted the British and the other loyal forces in saving Athens from the commies in 1944-1949

[kimon07]

THE BIGGEST ZIONISTIC BULLSHIT !!!!!!!!!!! Inside Hitler's Greece Written by Mark Mazower, need we say more sheep. P.S. to all of you Cypriot, Armenian, Greek, Maronite,Turkish that claim your grandfathers fought the Nazis in Greece, well they lied. They fought to be the first to performe Keg stands with those loving Nazis, Bulgarians and Italians at the beach.........

[kimon07]

What?

Next AC will be saying the Turks never murdered the Armenians and it was all a Zionist Bullshit.......

He is trying to be sarcastic. He wants to say that anyone supporting or accepting Golden Dawn as a parliamentary party doubts or even denies the atrocities commited by the occupation forces against the Greek people. Strange thinking indeed!

[kimon07]

To Armenian Cypriot.

Thanks for the wonderful material. It will enrich greatly my arguments that Germany should pay dearly for reparations to Greece. Hear that Bill Cobet?