Little Moltke
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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Neither fascist nor authoritarian? The dynamics of fascistization in 1930s Greece
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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The developments leading to Metaxas’ death
Even foreign historians with a knowledge of the Greek language and access to official sources or even personal interviews with people who lived through the events at the time, have fallen victim to their sources prejudices or the inaccuracies of […]
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Religion, Ideology and National Identity in the 4th of August regime
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 […]
Read more »Danza de la Muerte: Greek Arms Dealing in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
In September 1936, both General Ioannis Metaxas and King George II declared it illegal for Greeks to intervene in the ongoing Spanish Civil War. This declaration included a prohibition on the exportation and re-exportation of munitions. Nonetheless, members of the […]
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Australia’s media on the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War
On the morning of Monday 28 October, 1940, The Daily News in Perth ran this headline on their front page “Greece at war with Italy“. “Greece is at war with Italy” the report started. “An official statement issued in London […]
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Does Metaxas deserve a statue?
The recent request from the ultra-nationalist party Golden Dawn to restore an old statue of Ioannis Metaxas in the island of Kefalonia has ignited the debate on whether Metaxas deserves a statue in modern-day Greece. By looking at the state of his […]
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Should modern Greece learn off Metaxas in the debt crisis?
Now that Greece is in the news for the debt crisis, it’s convenient to have a look back at Greek history for inspiration. 72 years ago, Greece under Metaxas stopped payments to its creditors. It was June 1939 when dictator Ioannis […]
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‘The Metaxas Dictatorship’ – Review by Philip Carabott
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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