After the Wehrmacht invaded Greece on the spring of 1941, a new quisling Greek government was created in Athens headed by General Georgios Tsolakoglou, the army commander who had signed the armistice with the Germans. Although Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German […]
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Just because it has been published it does not mean that it’s worthy. That might be the case of “Authoritarianism in Greece: The Metaxas Regime” (New York: Columbia University Press. 1983. Pp. 192), by John V. Kofas. I once read […]
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In this new academic paper, Mogens Pelt, Associate Professor in International History at the Saxo Institute of the University of Copenhagen, reviews the establishment of the Metaxas dictatorship when the Greek king, George II, gave General Ioannis Metaxas carte blanche […]
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This is an article by Gray, LC on Metaxas published on the “Current History and Forum” newspaper, New York 52.4 (Nov 26, 1940):
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In this new academic paper, Keele University faculty member Aristotle Kallis argues that the 4th of August regime was a distinctly Greek facet of the more general ‘fascistisation’ of large sections of the interwar European right; an that as such, […]
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This article explores the relation between ideology, national identity and religion in the palingenetic discourse of the 4th of August regime in Greece, which was established by Metaxas in 1936through a coup d’etat. The paper “Fascism and Religion: The Metaxas Regime in Greece […]
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