A collection of medals issued by the Metaxas regime. Phrases such as “Molon Lave” (“Come and take them”, the words Leonidas spoke at Thermopylae), and mottos such as “Pistis – Agon – Niki” (“Faith – Struggle – Victory”), together with relevant dates such […]
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Nelly was the 4th of August regime’s favorite photographer, which earned her the epithet of ‘the Greek Leni Riefenstahl’. Nelly (whose real name was Elli Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari, in Greek Έλλη Σουγιουλτζόγλου-Σεραϊδάρη) was born in Aidini, near Smyrna, in Asia Minor. She […]
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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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It is remarkable that the first visit from a foreign representative to the newly established 4th of August State was to be Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany. Metaxas had established his regime on August 4, 1936, and […]
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Few days after the Italian invasion through the Greco-Albanian border (October 28, 1940), Ioannis Metaxas and the Greek Army High Command issued an order to set up the 1st Ski Battalion. Until then, there was no formal ski battalion within […]
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Scans from one 1939 issue of Agrotikon Mellon (Αγροτικών Μέλλον), a newspaper issued by the 4th of August state for agricultural matters.
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Sitsa Karaïskaki was one of the main propagandists in the 4th of August State. Born in 1902, in 1926 she went to Germany, where she studied Philosophy at the University of Munich, eventually gaining her doctorate. She was in Germany […]
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