Greek Army officer and resistance leader during the Axis occupation of Greece
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Major General
Dimitrios Psarros
Dimitrios Psarros in uniform.
Native name
Δημήτριος Ψαρρός
Born
c. 1893 Chryso, Phocis, Kingdom of Greece
Died
17 April 1944 Kingdom of Greece
Allegiance
Kingdom of Greece
Provisional Government of National Defence
Second Hellenic Republic
Service/branch
Hellenic Army
EKKA
Rank
Major General
Battles/wars
Balkan Wars
First Balkan War
Second Balkan War
World War I
Macedonian front
Russian Civil War
Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War
Southern Front
Southern Russia Intervention
Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) World War II
Battle of Greece
Greco-Italian War
Greek Resistance
Greek Civil War (First Phase)
Alma mater
Hellenic Military Academy
Spouse(s)
Niki Psarrou
Dimitrios Psarros (Greek: Δημήτριος Ψαρρός; 1893 – April 17, 1944) was a Greek army officer, founder and leader of the resistance group National and Social Liberation (EKKA), the third-most significant organization of the Greek Resistance movement after the National Liberation Front (EAM) and the National Republican Greek League (EDES). In 1944, he was executed by Greek communist forces.
DimitriosPsarros (Greek: Δημήτριος Ψαρρός; 1893 – April 17, 1944) was a Greek army officer, founder and leader of the resistance group National and Social...
including its leader Colonel DimitriosPsarros. The event caused a major shock in the Greek political scene, since Psarros was a well-known republican...
Colonel DimitriosPsarros and politician Georgios Kartalis. Alongside Psarros and Kartalis, founding members included fellow officers Dimitrios Karachristos...
group was the National and Social Liberation (EKKA), led by Colonel DimitriosPsarros. In general, most of the major guerrilla groups were at least moderately...
5/42 Evzone Regiment, murdering the EKKA resistance group leader, DimitriosPsarros, in as yet unclear and hotly debated circumstances and executing all...
Social Liberation resistance group, which surrenders. Its leader DimitriosPsarros is murdered. 1945 – World War II: Montese, Italy, is liberated from...
Colonel Napoleon Zervas, and the social-liberal EKKA, led by Colonel DimitriosPsarros. The Greek landscape was favourable to guerrilla operations, and by...
A. Argyropoulos [fr] (representatives of Thessaloniki), Dimitrios Dingas [el] and Dimitrios Pazis [bg] (representatives of Serres), Nikolaos Manos (representative...
Athenian suburb of Goudi with their supporters forcing the government of Dimitrios Rallis to resign, and a new one was formed with Kiriakoulis Mavromichalis...
insurrection broke out in Nafplion, led by Dimitrios Grivas [el], Petros A. Mavromichalis [el] and Dimitrios Botsaris. Soon, the revolt started to spread...
Stylianos Gonatas as representative of the army in Lesvos and Commander Dimitrios Fokas as representative of the navy. The next day, the troops boarded...
the Jewish community financed the stained glass windows of the Saint Dimitrios Church in Zakynthos in his honor. He was then transferred, shortly before...
decided Greece to not participate in the operation, and was replaced with Dimitrios Gounaris. The new PM made statements to the Press about the proposals...
destroyed EKKA's 5/42 Evzones Regiment, executing its leader Col. DimitriosPsarros. In October 1944, when the Nazis evacuated Greece, ELAS was the dominant...
Kerasidis, Athanasios Fidas, Ioannis Evthimiadis and military officer DimitriosPsarros. Its armed wing comprised two armed forces; Athanasios Diakos led...
Greece, along with a number of Greek Army officers including Colonel Dimitrios Opropoulos and Majors Spyros Moustaklis, Nikolaos Lytras and George Karousos...
Socialist Party, the Agrarian Party, the Democratic Union and Colonel DimitriosPsarros (who later founded the EKKA). The Macedonian Bureau of KKE organised...
the People's Party, leading Sofoulis to abstain from the government of Dimitrios Maximos. However, on 7 September 1947 he became prime minister once again...
trial and execution of five royalist politicians, including former PM Dimitrios Gounaris, and the former Commander-in-Chief, General Georgios Hatzianestis...
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