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Axis Occupation Of Greece

Axis Occupation Of Greece Events

1941 Apr 27 Athens Falls to Axis Powers
Few Greeks cooperated with the Nazis and most chose either the path of passive acceptance or active resistance. Active Greek resistance started immediately as many Greeks fled to the hill...
1943 Mar 15 Germans Begin Deportations of Thessaloniki Jews
On March 15, 1943, the Germans began deporting the Jews from Thessaloniki. Every three days, freightcars crammed with an average of 2,000 Thessaloniki Jews headed toward Auschwitz-Birken...
1943 Sep 21 Germany Commences Weeklong Massacre of the Acqui Division (Cephalonia Massacre)
The massacre started on 21 September, and lasted for one week. After the Italian surrender, Hitler had issued an order allowing the Germans to summarily execute any Italian officer who re...
1943 Sep 26 Battle of Leros Begins with German Attack
The German forces assembling for Unternehmen Leopard ("Operation Leopard") under the command of Generalleutnant Müller, comprised III./Infanterie-Regiment 440, II./IR 16 and II./IR 65 of ...
1943 Oct 3
to 1943 Oct 4
 Battle of Kos
The main prize, the island of Rhodes, fell to a swift attack by a German armoured brigade. Nevertheless, British forces landed on several islands, most notably Kos and Leros, and together...
1943 Nov 16 British Surrender to Germany at Leros
On the morning of 16 November it became apparent to the British commander, Brigadier Tilney, that their situation was untenable and he surrendered. 3200 British and 5350 Italian soldiers ...
1943 Dec 13 Massacre of Kalavryta
The Holocaust of Kalavryta (Greek: Ολοκαύτωμα των Καλαβρύτων), or the Massacre of Kalavryta (Σφαγή των Καλαβρύτων), refers to the extermination of the male population and the subsequent t...
1944 Feb 29 British Agents in Greece and Occupying Germans Agree to Ceasefire with the Signing of the Plaka Agreement
When the German offensive abated somewhat, General Zervas sent his EDES fighters to counterattack ELAS in the hopes of regaining ground lost in the earlier fighting. In early January 1944...
1944 Mar 25 Deportation of the Jews of Ioannina
While detained, [Dr. Moses Koffinas] learned of German plans to deport Jews, and smuggled a note out to Sabetai Kabelis, a prominent member of the Jewish Community Board, advising the Jew...
1944 Jun 10 Distomo Massacre
At that point the tragedy of Distomo begins. The residents, that did not accomplish to slip from Diaskelo earlier, the only unguarded crossing towards the sea, are closed terrified in t...
1944 Jul 3 EDES-German Truce Ends as German Occupiers Begin Evacuation of Greece
When Italy surrendered to the Allies in the fall of 1943, German forces actively hunted down and, in some cases executed, the Italian soldiers and simultaneously began serious attacks on ...
1944 Oct 12 Liberation of Athens from German Occupation
As the last German soldiers take the swastika down from the Acropolis and begin to drive through the city towards the road north they pass through crowds of Athenians in a state of joy, w...