A day just like today, 84 years ago, a 4th of August, Ioannis Metaxas established his regime. As a commemoration, August 4 became a day of national holiday and throughout the dictatorship it was celebrated with massive rallies and festivities all across […]
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These are a number of scanned pages from the book “Enas Xronos Dimiourgikon Mochthon” (Ενας Χρονος Δημιουργικον Μοχθον), “One Year of Creative Hard Work”, published in Athens in 1937 by the usual Ekdoseis Ethnikis Etairias. It celebrated the Metaxas’ regime first […]
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This is the English translation of an article published in a French newspaper about the swearing ceremony of the first phalanx of the EON, the National Youth Organization, under the presidence of Metaxas. Yesterday at noon, in the presence of the […]
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These are a number of scans of a book published by Pyrsos in 1937 in Athens, about the Greek youth. It was written by I. G. Iliakis (whose signature appears on the first inner page) and commissioned by the 4th […]
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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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