Given the limits on his personal power as dictator and a lack of a social base for his regime, Metaxas turned to the example set by the contemporary fascist regimes, deciding that the creation of a youth movement on the […]
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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GUIDE TO THE GREEK PAMPHLET COLLECTION AT THE FIRESTONE LIBRARY, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY File A: EON (Ethnike Organoseis Neolaias Hellados) Publications item #1 — He Gheorghia sten Hellada (Agriculture in Greece). Athens: E. O. N., 1939. 15 pages. State propaganda on […]
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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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19 October 1939 “It is important to us here in Greece, and we are not particularly interested what other societies and foreign countries think of it. Here it is simply linked to the very existence and survival of Greek society. […]
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Taken from Ioannis Metaxas’ diary. It concerns the official proclamation of the Regime of the Fourth of August 1936: To the Greek People, While the Parliament elected after the long domestic adventures of the Nation in January 1936, in order […]
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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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