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Book Bulgarian Atrocities in Greek Macedonia and Thrace 1941 1944

Download or read book Bulgarian Atrocities in Greek Macedonia and Thrace 1941 1944 written by [Anonymus AC11092077] and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Church of Greece under Axis Occupation

Download or read book The Church of Greece under Axis Occupation written by Panteleymon Anastasakis and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Axis forces (Germany, Italy, and Bulgaria) occupied Greece from 1941 to 1944. The unimaginable hardships caused by foreign occupation were compounded by the flight of the government days before enemy forces reached Athens. This national crisis forced the Church of Greece, an institution accustomed to playing a central political and social role during times of crisis, to fill the political vacuum. Led by Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens, the clergy sought to maintain the cultural, spiritual, and territorial integrity of the nation during this harrowing period. Circumstances forced the clergy to create a working relationship with the major political actors, including the Axis authorities, their Greek allies, and the growing armed resistance movements, especially the communist-led National Liberation Front. In so doing the church straddled a fine line between collaboration and resistance—individual clerics, for instance, negotiated with Axis authorities to gain small concessions, while simultaneously resisting policies deemed detrimental to the nation. Drawing on official archives—of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the British Foreign Office, the U.S. State Department, and the Greek Holy Synod—alongside an impressive breadth of published literature, this book provides a refreshingly nuanced account of the Greek clergy’s complex response to the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II. The author’s comprehensive portrait of the reaction of Damaskinos and his colleagues, including tensions and divisions within the clergy, provides a uniquely balanced exploration of the critical role they played during the occupation. It helps readers understand how and why traditional institutions such as the Church played a central social and political role in moments of social upheaval and distress. Indeed, as this book convincingly shows, the Church was the only institution capable of holding Greek society together during World War II. While The Church of Greece under Axis Occupation elucidates the significant differences between the Greek case and those of other territories in Axis-occupied Europe, it also offers fresh insight into the similarities. Greek clerics dealt with many of the same challenges clerics faced in other parts of Hitler’s empire, including exceptionally brutal reprisal policies, deprivation and hunger, and the complete collapse of the social and political order caused by years of enemy occupation. By examining these challenges, this illuminating new book is an important contribution not only to Greek historiography but also to the broader literatures on the Holocaust, collaboration and resistance during World War II, and church–state relations during times of crisis.

Book The Holocaust in Greece

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  • Author : Giorgos Antoniou
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2018-11-01
  • ISBN : 1108679951
  • Pages : 397 pages

Download or read book The Holocaust in Greece written by Giorgos Antoniou and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the sizeable Jewish community living in Greece during the 1940s, German occupation of Greece posed a distinct threat. The Nazis and their collaborators murdered around ninety percent of the Jewish population through the course of the war. This new account presents cutting edge research on four elements of the Holocaust in Greece: the level of antisemitism and question of collaboration; the fate of Jewish property before, during, and after their deportation; how the few surviving Jews were treated following their return to Greece, especially in terms of justice and restitution; and the ways in which Jewish communities rebuilt themselves both in Greece and abroad. Taken together, these elements point to who was to blame for the disaster that befell Jewish communities in Greece, and show that the occupation authorities alone could not have carried out these actions to such magnitude without the active participation of Greek Christians.

Book Denying Ethnic Identity

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  • Author : Human Rights Watch/Helsinki (Organization : U.S.)
  • Publisher : Human Rights Watch
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9781564321329
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book Denying Ethnic Identity written by Human Rights Watch/Helsinki (Organization : U.S.) and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1994 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fear.

Book The Last Ottomans

Download or read book The Last Ottomans written by K. Featherstone and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new study of the international and local politics surrounding the Muslim minority of Western Thrace (Greece) in the 1940s, based on previously unseen archival material. Addresses the minority's complex identity, its relations with other communities in the area, the international diplomacy of WWII and strategic considerations of the Cold War.

Book Special Bibliography

Download or read book Special Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Special Bibliographic Series

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  • Author : US Army Military History Research Collection
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1978
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 536 pages

Download or read book Special Bibliographic Series written by US Army Military History Research Collection and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Macedonian Controversy

Download or read book The Macedonian Controversy written by George B. Zotiades and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The German Secret Field Police in Greece  1941 1944

Download or read book The German Secret Field Police in Greece 1941 1944 written by Antonio J. Muñoz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Geheime Feldpolizei (Secret Field Police) was the political police force of the German Army during World War II. Its members were drawn from both the regular German police, including detectives, and various Nazi security organizations. The goals of the GFP were numerous and included protecting important political and military leaders; investigating black market activities as well as acts of sabotage and espionage; locating deserters; examining anti-German activists and hunting down partisans. While performing these duties, GFP members immersed themselves in criminal activities. This book focuses on the function of the GFP in Greece compared to that of the GFP elsewhere in Europe.

Book Debating the Past

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  • Author : ????? ????????
  • Publisher : Central European University Press
  • Release : 2011-01-01
  • ISBN : 6155053006
  • Pages : 377 pages

Download or read book Debating the Past written by ????? ???????? and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Stambolov, the Russophiles, and the Russophobes in Bulgaria -- Initial Interpretations of the Stambolov Era -- The Marxist Historians on Stambolov's Regime -- Towards Stambolov's Rehabilitation -- After the Fall of the Communist Regime -- CITED LITERATURE -- CHAPTER 2 The Rule of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union and the "Worker-Peasant Alliance"--The Road to Power -- Agrarian Rule: Ideology and Reforms -- Interpretation and Assessments -- Aleksandŭr Stamboliiski -- The Agrarian Union and the "Unity of Action" with the Bulgarian Communist Party -- CITED LITERATURE -- CHAPTER 3 The Debate on Fascism and the Anti-fascist Struggles -- The Long Fascism and the Breaches in It -- "Monarcho-Fascism" -- Bulgaria and Hitler's Germany -- Anti-Fascism and the Struggle against Fascism -- After Communism -- CITED LITERATURE -- CHAPTER 4 September Ninth, "People's Democracy" and Socialism -- September Ninth -- "People's Democracy" (1944-1948) -- Socialism in Progress -- After Socialism, about Socialism: September Ninth Revisited -- The People's-Democratic Transition -- Georgi Dimitrov -- The Macedonian Question -- The Repressions -- Bulgarian Totalitarianism -- The Zhivkov Era and Descriptions of the System -- Socialist Modernization -- Aspects of the System -- CITED LITERATURE -- CONCLUSION The Truth and Objectivity Question in Bulgarian Historical Scholarship -- CITED LITERATURE -- Transliteration.

Book Nationalism and Communism in Macedonia

Download or read book Nationalism and Communism in Macedonia written by Euangelos Kōphos and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eavesdropping on Hell

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  • Author : Robert J. Hanyok
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2013-04-10
  • ISBN : 0486310442
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Eavesdropping on Hell written by Robert J. Hanyok and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This recent government publication investigates an area often overlooked by historians: the impact of the Holocaust on the Western powers' intelligence-gathering community. A guide for researchers rather than a narrative study, it explains the archival organization of wartime records accumulated by the U.S. Army's Signal Intelligence Service and Britain's Government Code and Cypher School. In addition, it summarizes Holocaust-related information intercepted during the war years and deals at length with the fascinating question of how information about the Holocaust first reached the West. The guide begins with brief summaries of the history of anti-Semitism in the West and early Nazi policies in Germany. An overview of the Allies' system of gathering communications intelligence follows, along with a list of American and British sources of cryptologic records. A concise review of communications intelligence notes items of particular relevance to the Holocaust's historical narrative, and the book concludes with observations on cryptology and the Holocaust. Numerous photographs illuminate the text.

Book Old and New Islam in Greece

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  • Author : Konstantinos Tsitselikis
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2012-05-25
  • ISBN : 9004221530
  • Pages : 627 pages

Download or read book Old and New Islam in Greece written by Konstantinos Tsitselikis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-05-25 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an interdisciplinary look at Greece’s Muslim minority and migrant communities, this book provides an exhaustive legal analysis of regulations and broadens our understanding of the political management of ethnic and religious otherness, while placing these phenomena in historical context.

Book Balkan Genocides

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  • Author : Paul Mojzes
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Release : 2011-10-16
  • ISBN : 1442206659
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book Balkan Genocides written by Paul Mojzes and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2011-10-16 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the twentieth century, the Balkan Peninsula was affected by three major waves of genocides and ethnic cleansings, some of which are still being denied today. In Balkan Genocides Paul Mojzes provides a balanced and detailed account of these events, placing them in their proper historical context and debunking the common misrepresentations and misunderstandings of the genocides themselves. A native of Yugoslavia, Mojzes offers new insights into the Balkan genocides, including a look at the unique role of ethnoreligiosity in these horrific events and a characterization of the first and second Balkan wars as mutual genocides. Mojzes also looks to the region's future, discussing the ongoing trials at the International Criminal Tribunal in Yugoslavia and the prospects for dealing with the lingering issues between Balkan nations and different religions. Balkan Genocides attempts to end the vicious cycle of revenge which has fueled such horrors in the past century by analyzing the terrible events and how they came to pass.

Book The Paris Peace Conference of 1946 and the Greek Bulgarian Relations

Download or read book The Paris Peace Conference of 1946 and the Greek Bulgarian Relations written by Dēmētrios S. Kōnstantopoulos and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Revolution Administered  Agrarianism and Communism in Bulgaria

Download or read book Revolution Administered Agrarianism and Communism in Bulgaria written by Nissan Oren and published by Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the role of Bulgaria in the world communist system, with particular reference to political aspects of economic integration and other forms of international cooperation with the socialist countries - examines the historical aspects of the internal conflict of opposing political ideologies in respect of agrarian reform and industrialization, and covers political leadership (incl. Of the communist political party), the role of USSR, nationalism, foreign policy, etc. Bibliography pp. 185 to 196 and references.

Book Britain and the Greek Economic Crisis  1944 1947

Download or read book Britain and the Greek Economic Crisis 1944 1947 written by Athanasios Lykogiannis and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1944, the National Unity Government of newly liberated Greece faced a severe inflationary crisis. Although Greece could count on considerable assistance and advice from its allies, particularly Great Britain, much depended on Greece's own actions and its determination to restore economic normality. Success was meager, and by the time the British pulled out of Greece in the spring of 1947, economic stability remained elusive. Britain and the Greek Economic Crisis, 1944-1947 concentrates on Anglo-Greek interactions in economic matters during the political and economic turmoil between the Axis occupation of Greece and the Greek civil war. By analyzing the Greek crisis primarily in economic terms, Athanasios Lykogiannis avoids the political partisanship that has colored much previous writing on the subject and throws light on many issues neglected by earlier authors. Drawing on a range of untapped British, American, and Greek archival sources, as well as extensive secondary sources, the author examines the interplay of political and economic factors, such as the ingrained polarization of Greek society and the weakness and timidity of the country's governments, that aggravated and prolonged the crisis.