Trivialization of World War Two and Shoah in Greece: Uses, Misuses and Analogies in Light of the Current Debt Crisistrivialization of WWIIpolitics of memoryHolocausteconomic crisisantisemitismstereotypesThe economic crises since 2008 have, in Greece, given rise to a variety of blame-narratives which...
In years between WW1 and WW2, Greece was marked by instability. The large population migration as the result of the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 saw many civilian deaths, and the 1924 fall of the monarchy would completely reverse itself in 1935. In 1936, the pro-British Ioannis Metaxas...
first against Mussolini and then against Hitler. Though the book is long out of print these articles remind us of the days during the war when the world seemed such a dark place, and then the Greeks gave us hope. When the Italians invaded Greece it seemed as if yet another country would...
This is just one of the many details that led numerous reviewers to call The Colours of the Night the most accurate and authentic account of life on an RAF bomber base during World War Two written from a woman’s point of view . Virginia Bennett, the novel’s narrator, is a member of...
George Blytas' The First Victory: Greece in the Second World War. This site includes Excerpts, Endorsements, Maps, Biographical information.
the anniversary of the day that former military general and Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas said “OXI” (NO) to an ultimatum made by Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, an ally of Hitler, to allow Italian forces to occupy strategic locations in Greece or otherwise face war. ...
World War 2 Facts — What Started WW2? Although a variety of different factorscausedWorld War Two, the main event and the trigged for what started WW2 was Germany’s invasion of Poland in September 1939. Of course the invasion was preceded by decades of political conflict. The Treaty of Ve...
World War II Ends (1945) African American Servicemen Fight Two Wars World War II Casualties and Legacy Photo Galleries World War II, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history, involved more than 50 nations and was fought on land, sea and air in nearly every part of the world. Al...
Greece surrenders to Germany. May 2 Britain invades pro-Axis Iraq, and the Anglo-Iraqi War begins. The war ends on May 31, when the pro-Axis government surrendered. June 2 The Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American military pilots, began, with the formation of the 99th Fighter Squadr...
‘Pact of Steel’ signed with its Nazi ally in May 1939. War now spread to the Italian empire in North and East Africa and, from October 1940, to the Balkans. Italian forces botched what they had hoped would be a successfulblitzkriegagainst Greece and the effect over the next year was ...