Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou, born Dimitrios Papandreou was the archbishop of Athens and All Greece from 1941 until his death in 1949. He was also the regent of Greece between the pull-out of the German occupation force in 1944 and the return of King George II to Greece in 1946. His rule was between the liberation of Greece from the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II and the Greek Civil War.
Archbishop Damaskinos, 1945
Damaskinos as regent of Greece with the chiefs of the armed forces, February 1945
A statue in Corinth
Georgios Papandreou was a Greek politician, the founder of the Papandreou political dynasty. He served three terms as prime minister of Greece. He was also deputy prime minister from 1950 to 1952, in the governments of Nikolaos Plastiras and Sofoklis Venizelos. He served numerous times as a cabinet minister, starting in 1923, in a political career that spanned more than five decades.
Papandreou in 1968
The leadership of the 1922 Revolution, Colonels Plastiras and Gonatas, with their political advisor, Geórgios Papandreou senior (left).
Geórgios Papandreou and others on the Acropolis of Athens, after the liberation from the Axis powers.
Georgios Papandreou with Nikolaos Plastiras and Gendarmerie officers, 1950
