Tag: regime
Metaxas’ quotes on the importance of sports
“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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The Metaxas regime: Clientelistic Fascism
The Greek communists called the Metaxas dictatorship “Monarchofascism”. Some authors deny the fascist character and describe it as a simple royal dictatorship with fascist leanings. On the other hand, German historian Heinz A. Richter thinks that the regime of the […]
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The economic policy of the 4th of August regime
In 1936, the Greek economy was in a precarious state, running a budget deficit of 844 million drachmas and dependent on a constant stream of ever-growing foreign loans. The rate of unemployment in the country was high: in a country of about […]
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Symbols of the Metaxas regime (4th of August State)
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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On Metaxas’ death – The Examiner, 29 January 1941
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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The political and diplomatic background to the Metaxas dictatorship
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 ideology of the Metaxas Regime
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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Metaxas and the hydroplane
This is a short (fictional) story about Metaxas from an American magazine for children after WW2, which was retrieved in 2005 by priest John W. Ritenbaugh for a sermon called “Don’t Lose Your Focus!”. Here is another something that actually […]
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