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Inside Hitler's Greece : the experience of occupation, 1941-44

Explores the impact of the Occupation upon the lives and values of ordinary people. Drawing on first-hand accounts and untapped archival sources, Mazower offers a human picture of the experiences of resistance fighters and the black marketeers, teenage German conscripts and Gestapo officers.
Print Book, English, 1993
Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, 1993
xxv, 437 s. : ill. ; 24 cm
9780300058048, 9780300065527, 0300058047, 0300065523
185692435
Prologue: Swastika over the Acropolis. Part I The chaos of the New Order, 1941-43: Venizelos's funeral; the Occupation begins; the famine; black market axioms; "An atmosphere of imminent catastrophe"; Greek workers in the Reich; dreams of a new Europe. Part II: "This heroic madness", 1942-43: the resistance of daily life; prudence or bravery? the old politicians; becoming organized; urban protest; "Freedom or death!"; politics of the Andartiko; the end of Italian rule. Part 3 The logic of violence and terror, 1943-44: the logic of violence; anatomy of a massacre - 16th August 1943; "The loveliest time" - the behaviour and values of the German soldier; the SS and the terror system; Greek Jewry and the Final Solution. Part 4 A society at war, 1943-44: people's democracy in free Greece; ELAS - the army of the revolution; "A cemetery awash in blood" - the counter-revolution; "Tired out by history" - Athens 1944. Epilogue: "No peace without victory".