Κηδεία Ι. Μεταξά Omilia Ioanni Metaxa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVypr1kNn4k&feature=youtu.be Greece – December 1937 Metaxas – Papadopoulos Ioannis Metaxas Hellenic Armed Forces – World War II (part 1/2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TvfzwbfbnU&feature=youtu.be Hellenic Armed Forces – World War II (part 2/2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLNe9jMVvYQ&feature=youtu.be Η εγγονή του Ιωάννη […]
Read more »In this article, Professor Cristian Muntianu explains the relationship between Metaxas’ Greece and Romania in the wake of the WW2. The ending of ’30 years represented for Europe and for the world the outbreak of the Second World War. In this […]
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“Giati xairetai o kosmos” Hymn of the 4th of August regime Lyrics: T. Moraitinis. Mousic: Ger. Fren Giati xairetai o kosmos kai xamogelaei, patera, giati lampei o hlios etsi giati feggei etsi h mera? Giati san avth, paidi mou, thn […]
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Minutes of the 30 October 1940 most revealing confidential disclosure of the Greek Prime Minister John Metaxas, to the owners and chief editors of the Athens newspapers, on the political situation, with relevant decisions and predictions. Ioannis Metaxas, Greek Prime […]
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This is a touching note written in long hand by Lela Metaxas, widow of Metaxas, about the days leading up to the Italian ultimatum on 28 October 1940, in which, among other things, she reports, “Eight days before 28 October […]
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– Collected by Ioannis Fidanakis “The English tried to obstruct the landing of Greek troops in Crete, and the European press is unfriendly. SInce Europe wishes to prevent our national integration, we should forment a general revolt in Turkey, and […]
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Taken from the statements of Ioannis Metaxas when he himself took over the Ministry of Education (29 November 1938) […] I expect from all the teaching staff undivided assistance. I want to tell you about a trait of my character, […]
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During the interwar years fascist tendencies had been manifested in various ways in Greece and admiration had been repeatedly expressed for the Italian and German systems, all the more as these seemed to possess precisely what Greece was most lacking: […]
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The National Tourist Organization also started a publicity campaign about the beauty of nature in Greece whilst in 1933 a new law (5181) regulated the operation of hotels and introduced the idea of listing them by rank of comfort. In […]
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There were reams of personal letters directly addressed to the Chief of the 4th August Regime, pleading admiration, undying devotion and enthusiasm of his new state: One of these dated 11 December 1939, called Metaxas ‘the maker of new Greece’. […]
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