Videos (Part 2)
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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Metaxas and the hydroplane
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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On being a boy during the Metaxas years
“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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Time Magazine on King George and Metaxas, 4 november 1941
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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Archaeology under Metaxas
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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Older website updates (2000-2007)
Here is a list of older updates on the website. Links may not work because they refer to older versions of this website that are no longer available. ——–——– 2007 UPDATES ——–——– March 25th, 2007 An article from Time […]
Read more »Metaxas Project website’s history
Since year 2000, the Metaxas-Project website has been the Internet’s largest and most venerable website about Ioannis Metaxas and especially about the 4th of August regime. For nearly 12 years now, it’s been bringing light to one of the most […]
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Should modern Greece learn off Metaxas in the debt crisis?
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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