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 […]
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This is a short (fictional) story about Metaxas from an American magazine for children after WW2, which was retrieved in 2005 by priest John W. Ritenbaugh for a sermon called “Don’t Lose Your Focus!”. Here is another something that actually […]
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“Metaxas? They make good brandy,” Joel (who lived for six months in Greece) jokes, when I tell him one of my co-bloggers has asked what Greeks today think of Metaxas, the dictator who ruled Greece during the late 30s. In […]
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This is an article retrieved from the Time Magazine archives. It is an editorial published on 4 November 1941, about King George II and Metaxas, 10 months after the latter’s death: Since World War II began 14 months ago the Balkan […]
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This article is part of a paper examining the interplay between archaeology and dictatorship in the context of the Greek experience. This particular part is related to the period of fascism in Greece (1936-1941). The picture of Greece in the […]
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Now that Greece is in the news for the debt crisis, it’s convenient to have a look back at Greek history for inspiration. 72 years ago, Greece under Metaxas stopped payments to its creditors. It was June 1939 when dictator Ioannis […]
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On certain occasions, the propaganda used by the 4th of August regime aped the methods of Mussolini and Hitler. Metaxas gave himself symbolic titles, such as ‘First Worker’ (Protos Ergatis) and ‘First Peasant’ (Protos Agrotis), founded the national youth organisation […]
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Our publishing house Pelekys has just released a new book, titled “Metaxas Jugend – A picture album of the Greek Fascist Youth EON (Εθνική Οργάνωση Νεολαίας)” (see product page here), featuring over 400 pictures of the Greek equivalent to the […]
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The world financial crisis of 1930 and 1931 initiated a period of political chaos in Greece. The national economy was now based on export of luxury agricultural goods such as tobacco, olive oil, and raisins – commodities whose international demand fell […]
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Greece entered the Second World War after an attack by the Italian Navy on August 15, 1940, when an unidentified submarine torpedoed the Greek Navy Frigate Hellē in the harbor of the Cycladean island of Tēnos during the festival of […]
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