This is the original obituary published on The Examiner, Wednesday 29 January 1941, about John Metaxas’ death. METAXAS DIES – INSPIRER OF GREEKS London, Wednesday 29 January 1941. – General John Metaxas, the popular Premier-Dictator of Greece, died in […]
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This essay focuses on the diplomatic and especially on the political background in Greece that predated the establishment of Metaxas’ dictatorship. The author analyzes and assesses the events that took place in Greece between 1932 and 1935, just before the […]
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The first and most crucial question to arise in any examination of the “Fourth of August” regime is whether and to what extent it was influenced by contemporary European totalitarian systems. More specifically, since fascist regimes constituted the fashion of […]
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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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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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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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