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The National Republican Greek League was an anti-Nazi resistance group formed during the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II.
Napoleon Zervas (2nd from left) with fellow EDES officers Fotios Zambaras (1st from left)
Greek resistance
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The Greek resistance involved armed and unarmed groups from across the political spectrum that resisted the Axis occupation of Greece in the period 1941–1944, during World War II. The largest group wa
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…Republican Greek League (Greek: Εθνικός Δημοκρατικός Ελληνικός Σύνδεσμος (ΕΔΕΣ), Ethnikós Dimokratikós Ellinikós Sýndesmos (EDES)) was an anti-Nazi resistance group formed during the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II. The largest of the non-communist resistance groups, its military wing, the…
Athens University students parading on Greek National Independence Day (25 March) 1942, in defiance of the German and Italian occupation forces; the parade was eventually dispersed by Axis troops.
German soldiers raising the German War Flag over the Acropolis of Athens. The symbol of the country's occupation, it would be taken down in one of the first acts of the Greek Resistance.
Aris Velouchiotis, to the left, with officers of ELAS