Greek resistance

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Greek resistance
Part of the Balkans Campaign of World War II and the Resistance against the Axis Powers
Athens University students parading on Greek National Independence Day (25 March) 1942, in defiance of the German and Italian occupation forces; the parade was eventually dispersed by Axis troops.
Date April 1941 – October 1944 (until May 1945 in some Greek islands, including Crete) Location Greece Result Greek victory Overall German withdrawal by October 1944 Liberation in parts of the mainland and establishment of a "Free Greece" Support to the Allied victory Rise of EAM-ELAS and first phase of the Greek Civil War
Belligerents
Germany  Italy (until Sep. 1943)  Bulgaria (until Sep. 1944) Hellenic State Secessionist groups: Ohrana Këshilla Roman Legion (until Sep. 1943)	EAM-ELAS EDES EKKA PAO EOK and others... Supported by:  United Kingdom (SOE) Greek government-in-exile
Commanders and leaders
Günther Altenburg Wilhelm List Walter Kuntze Hermann Neubacher Alexander Löhr Walter Schimana Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller Pellegrino Ghigi Carlo Geloso Carlo Vecchiarelli Inigo Campioni Piero Parini Ivan Markov [bg] Trifon Trifonov [bg] Asen Sirakov Georgios Tsolakoglou Konstantinos Logothetopoulos Ioannis Rallis Georgios Bakos  Georgios Poulos  Andon Kalchev  Xhemil Dino Alcibiades Diamandi Nicolaos Matussis	Aris Velouchiotis Stefanos Sarafis Andreas Tzimas Evripidis Bakirtzis Alexandros Svolos Georgios Siantos Napoleon Zervas George Grivas Komninos Pyromaglou Dimitrios Psarros  Georgios Kartalis Nikolaos Plastiras Kostas Perrikos  Eddie Myers C.M. Woodhouse Patrick Leigh Fermor W. Stanley Moss Themis Marinos [el]
Strength
A total of 205,000+ men: 100,000 Germans, 40,000 Bulgarians, 40,000 others (1943)[1] 25,000 men of Security Battalions, Poulos Verband etc	45,000 men of ELAS (1944) 10,000 men of EDES (1944) 1,500 of EKKA and more
Casualties and losses
17,536 Germans killed[2][3] 1,532 Bulgarians killed 2,739 Italians killed[4] 5,000 Cham Albanians killed[5] 8,000 injured (in total) 6,463 POW Unknown number of collaborators 41,270+ total casualties[6]	4,500 ELAS members killed[4] 1,500 EDES members killed 200 EKKA members killed In total 20,650 partisans killed[7] 10,000 injured (in total)
50,000–70,000 civilians executed[8] c. 65,000 (including 60,000 Jews) were deported, of whom a small number survived[9] 300,000 died during the Great Famine[10]

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,^[11] with partisans, men and women known as andartes and andartisses (Greek: αντάρτες, αντάρτισσες, romanized: antártes, antártises, meaning "male and female guerrillas"),^[11][12][13] controlling much of the countryside prior to the German withdrawal from Greece in late 1944.