When was the EON created? Shortly after raising to power, Metaxas created the Ethniki Organosi Neolaias (EON), Greek for “National Youth Organization”. The EON was officially founded in September 5, 1936 but some reactions against it didn’t let the organization work until […]
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The political differences between Metaxas and Venizelos dominated the Greek political scene and divided Greece for nearly thirty years. The contrast in the personality of the two men couldn’t be starker. Venizelos was mercurial, charismatic, clannish, tribal, imperious and autocratic. Possessing […]
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Though a fascist by conviction and a former general, Metaxas despised his fellow-dictator Benito Mussolini, whom he viewed as little more than a theatrical windbag. Trained in the German authoritarian tradition, Metaxas was nonetheless an ardent patriot who made no secret […]
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Nelly’s involvement in the propaganda machinery of the Metaxas regime found its consummation in the New York International Expo of 1939, when she agreed to decorate the Greek pavilion with her photographs and four collages. The subject matter of these […]
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This is an article by Gray, LC on Metaxas published on the “Current History and Forum” newspaper, New York 52.4 (Nov 26, 1940):
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Even foreign historians with a knowledge of the Greek language and access to official sources or even personal interviews with people who lived through the events at the time, have fallen victim to their sources prejudices or the inaccuracies of […]
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“Hence, we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but that heroes fight like Greeks.” (Winston Churchill – 1941) Ioannis Metaxas has been described by many as a fascist, a nationalist, a dictator, a patriot, a leader, and a […]
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In early Summer 1939, the Greek fascist youth EON participated at the Joy and Work (“Freude und arbeit”) exhibition in Bucharest, Romania. “Freude und Arbeit” was a Nazi-sponsored program leaded by Dr. Robert Ley, the head of the Deutche Arbeitsfront, […]
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It’s curious to notice the aesthetic similarities between the looks of the Greek fascist youth movement EON and those of its Croatian equivalent, the Ustaška Mladež. Even when we take into acount the fact that both organizations were existing in a similar period of […]
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Metaxas’ willingness to stake the country’s social stability on the German option made it a condition sine qua non that the regime be able to gather some degree of popular support, or at least prevent the people from turning against […]
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