Scans from Junges Griechenland
These are some scans from the ‘Junges Griechenland’ book (‘Young Greece’), published by Alfred Widenmann in Berlin in 1940.
Read more »Tag: germany
The 1940 plot against Metaxas
One of the few episodes of actual significant opposition to the 4th of August State occured in June 1940, when a number of pro-Axis politicians and officers tried to change Metaxas’ foreign policy orientation and align Greece with Nazi Germany. The core of […]
Read more »
The defence strategy of the Metaxas regime: Armed neutrality
The policies of the 4th of August regime aimed to stabilize Greece and to protect the state from internal and external threats. Though Metaxas pursued a foreign policy of neutrality, he realized that, given Greece’s strategic position, neutrality would be […]
Read more »
Ioannis Metaxas
Ioannis Metaxas is among the most prominent personalities in modern Greek history, but outside Greece he is quite an unknown figure. What follows here is a short biography of Metaxas, intended to be a quick overview of him and certainly […]
Read more »