The National Republican Greek League was a major 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)
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 was the Communist-dominated EAM-ELAS. The Greek Resistance is considered one of the strongest resistance movements in Nazi-occupied Europe, with partisans, men and women known as andartes and andartisses, controlling much of the countryside prior to the German withdrawal from Greece in late 1944.
Athens University students parading on Greek National Indpendence 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, chief captain of ELAS
Napoleon Zervas, leader of the military wing of the EDES, with fellow officers
