Greek resistance

The Greek resistance (, meaning "National Resistance"), was the fight of armed and unarmed groups of many political views, against the Axis powers that had captured Greece in 1941 and their puppet state, the Hellenic State. It went from 1941 to 1944, during World War II. The largest group was the communist-influenced EAM-ELAS. The second-largest was the National Republican Greek League.

The Greek Resistance is considered to have been one of the strongest resistance movements in Nazi-occupied Europe. Its partisans, were men and women known as andartes and andartisses (, meaning "male rebels and female rebels"). They controlled much of the countryside before the Germans left Greece in the end of 1944.

 References 

 Sources 
 R. Capell, Simiomata: A Greek Note Book 1944–45, London 1946


 N.G.L. Hammond, Venture into Greece: With the Guerillas, 1943–44, London, 1983. (Like Woodhouse, he was a member of the British Military Mission)









 Reginald Leeper, When Greek Meets Greek: On the War in Greece, 1943–1945 
 United States Army Center of Military History, German Antiguerrilla Operations in The Balkans (1941–1944) Washington, D.C.: United States Army.
 Hondros, John L. (1983), Occupation and Resistance: The Greek Agony, New York: Pella Publishing

 Other websites 

 Martyr Cities & Villages of Greece Network 1940–1945 (in Greek)
 Official site of the documentary film The 11th Day which contains an extensive interview with Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, and documents the Battle of Trahili, filmed in 2003. 

Category:Resistance movements of World War II
Category:Greece
Category:Politics of Greece