Panhellenic Union of Fighting Youths information

The Panhellenic Union of Fighting Youths (Greek: Πανελλήνιος Ένωσις Αγωνιζόμενων Νέων, Panellínios Énosis Agonizómenon Néon, ΠΕΑΝ, PEAN) was an anti-Nazi...

PEAN/ΠΕΑΝ, the Panhellenic Union of Fighting Youths, a Greek Resistance organization under the Axis Occupation of Greece PEAN, the student yearbook of the Phillips...

the occupying forces of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy by the residents of the Greek island of Crete during World War II. Part of the larger Greek resistance...

formed by royalist army officers. The Panhellenic Union of Fighting Youths (PEAN) was perhaps the most active of the small urban resistance groups. It...

The United Panhellenic Organization of Youth, abbreviated EPON (Greek: Ενιαία Πανελλαδική Οργάνωση Νέων (ΕΠΟΝ)), was a Greek resistance organization that...

(Kommounistikó Kómma Elládas – Communist Party of Greece). Throughout the war against the Soviet Union, German propaganda portrayed the war as a noble...

village. The second great event was the foundation of the United Panhellenic Organization of Youth (EPON) (Greek: Ενιαία Πανελλαδική Οργάνωση Νέων). In...

in the reviving of EDA. In the elections of October 1981 and June 1985, he was elected Member of the Greek Parliament, on a Panhellenic Socialist Movement...

sense of military order according to which only professional warriors were allowed to fight. Reports from General Julius Ringel, commander of the 5th...

exasperated their Prussian sense of military order according to which no one but professional warriors should be allowed to fight. Such stories proved to be...

the Battle of France, the drive towards Leningrad and the fighting in Kuban during Operation Barbarossa. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross...

along with Cretan civilians, defended the island. After only one day of fighting, the Germans had suffered heavy casualties and the Allied troops were...

through the nationwide list of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK). In 1984 he was awarded the rank of the General of the Hellenic army. Dominique Eude...

saint's day, which was 8 November, the feast of Michael (he had assumed the name Michael while fighting with the Greek resistance). New Zealand writer...

Greek history, the centre-left government of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) allowed a number of DSE veterans who had taken refuge in communist...

Holocaust of Kalavryta (Ολοκαύτωμα των Καλαβρύτων), was the near-extermination of the male population and the total destruction of the town of Kalavryta...

blamed the failure of his invasion of the Soviet Union on Mussolini's failed conquest of Greece. Andreas Hillgruber has accused Hitler of trying to deflect...

The National Union of Greece (Greek: Εθνική Ένωσις Ελλάδος, Ethniki Enosis Ellados or EEE) was a far-right political party established in Thessaloniki...

The Massacre of Kos (Italian: Eccidio di Kos) was a war crime perpetrated in early October 1943 by the Wehrmacht against Italian army POWs on the Dodecanese...

depredations of some of those who, under the guise of being saviours of their country, were living upon the inhabitants and doing very little fighting against...

near the village of Damasta (Greek: Δαμάστα) and was aimed at preventing the Germans assaulting the village of Anogeia. As part of a coordinated attack...

On 12 January 1945, a truce ended the fighting, and the ELAS forces were pulled out of Athens to a distance of 70 miles from the capital. However, EAM...

and fight with the Allies or go home. Anticipating the Italian armistice, German forces, based largely in mainland Greece, had been rushed to many of the...

military installations, he announced the beginning of his campaign for Self Determination – Union with Greece. He directed the first EOKA operations from...