“When you make your body robust, don’t forget that your soul will also become robust” “The bases for the reform of the New Greek Generation: I want one Youth: Healthy, Strong and Athletic” “Greek traditional sport will become one of […]
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In the campaign of Metaxas for a “new Greece”, his attempt to consolidate the shape of the “Third Hellenic Civilization” held a primary place. This concept aimed at the long-term elevation of the Greek race and the fullfilment of Greece’s historical mission […]
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The regime established by Ioannis Metaxas on August 4, 1936 was branded as the ‘New State’, so it was only normal that the new state would have a new symbol. The same had occured earlier with the Fascist and Nazi ascent […]
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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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Almost a decade ago, John Koliopoulos had deplored that Jon Kofas in his work Authoritarianism in Greece. The Metaxas Regime (1983) sided with ‘those who have saddled [Metaxas] with crimes he did not commit’ (Took review’, Journal of Modern Greek […]
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During the interwar years fascist tendencies had been manifested in various ways in Greece and admiration had been repeatedly expressed for the Italian and German systems, all the more as these seemed to possess precisely what Greece was most lacking: […]
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In his The Past is a Foreign Country (Cambridge 1985), David Lowenthal has demonstrated that whether by celebrating some of its aspects [or] expunging others, we reshape the past in line with present needs. Forty-three years earlier, the future kyvernitis […]
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