Armed resistance to the Axis occuption of Greece during WWII
This article is about the Greek Resistance during World War II. For information about the resistance to Ottoman occupation, see klepht. For information about the post-war activities of resistance groups, see Greek Civil War.
17,536 Germans killed[2][3] 1,532 Bulgarians killed 2,739 Italians killed[4] 8,000 injured (in total) 6,463 POW Unknown number of collaborators 36,270+ total casualties[5]
4,500 ELAS members killed[4] 200 EKKA members In total 20,650 partisans killed[6] 10,000 injured (in total)
50,000–70,000 civilians executed[7] c. 65,000 (including 60,000 Jews) were deported, of whom a small number survived[8] (300,000 died during the Great Famine)
The Greek resistance (Greek: Εθνική Αντίσταση, romanized: Ethnikí Antístasi "National Resistance") involved armed and unarmed groups from across the political spectrum that resisted the Axis occupation of Greece in the period 1941–1944, during World War II. The largest group was the Communist-dominated EAM-ELAS. The Greek Resistance is considered one of the strongest resistance movements in Nazi-occupied Europe,[9] with partisans, men and women known as andartes and andartisses (Greek: αντάρτες, αντάρτισσες, romanized: antártes, antártises, meaning "male and female rebels"),[9][10][11] controlling much of the countryside prior to the German withdrawal from Greece in late 1944.
^Kaspar Dreidoppel (2008). Der griechische Dämon. Widerstand und Bürgerkrieg im besetzten Griechenland 1941–1944. Balkanologische Veröffentlichungen des Osteuropa-Instituts an der Freien Universität Berlin. Βίσμπαντεν: Harassowitz. p. 492.
^Munoz, Antonio J. The German Secret Field Police in Greece, 1941–44. Jefferson: MacFarland & Company, Inc., 2018, p. 95.
^ abSpyros Tsoutsoumpis, History of the Greek Resistance in the [Second World War: The People's Armies (Manchester University Press, 2016) online review