Tag: 1941
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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From Metaxas to Tsolakoglou: From dictatorship to collaborationism
Greece entered the Second World War after an attack by the Italian Navy on August 15, 1940, when an unidentified submarine torpedoed the Greek Navy Frigate Hellē in the harbor of the Cycladean island of Tēnos during the festival of […]
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The Greco-German War
Despite Metaxas’ strategy of armed neutrality and his wish to stay out of the war unfolding, Greece was forcedly involved in World War II on 28 October 1940, when the Italian Army invaded from Albania, beginning the Greco-Italian War. The […]
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Metaxas’ early years
Ioannis Metaxas was born in Ithaca on April 12, 1871. His family roots traced back to the Byzantine nobility based in Constantinople. The head of the Metaxas family was Markos Antonios, who was advisor and co-warrior of the Byzantine emperor Konstantinos Palaiologos. After the […]
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In Memory of Ioannis Metaxas
On January 29, 1941 one of Modern Hellas’ greatest leaders, Ioannis Metaxas, passed away. Born on the island of Ithaki (Ithaca) on the 12 of April 1871 and raised in Kefalonia, Metaxas was a student at the Military Academy in […]
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John Metaxas: Bone and Gristle
In Belgrade last fortnight a German medical specialist boarded a fast Greek military plane for Athens. The chief surgeon of the British Mediterranean Fleet was rushing simultaneously in the same direction. Both were bound for the bedside of Greece’s Premier, […]
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Metaxas’ political testament
Ioannis Metaxas was bothered by the question of succession and to this extent his so-called Last Political Will and Testament, To Politevma tou Ioannou Metaxa (The Political Regime of Ioannis Metaxas), setting out the general outline of a future constitution […]
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Death of Metaxas
Metaxas died at the family home, the modest villa on Danglis Street, Kifissia, at 5:30 a.m. (the official bulletin of the attending physicians put the time of death at 6:00 a.m.) on the morning of Tuesday, 29 January 1941. Cause […]
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The forgotten Metaxas Line
The political establishment is attempting to toss the name of the architect of the epos of 1940-41, Ioannis Metaxas, into oblivion. Following the news on 7 April about the fighters of fortress “Roupel”, I noticed that neither the announcer nor […]
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