Georgios Papandreou
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Georgios Papandreou was a Greek politician, the founder of the Papandreou political dynasty. He served three terms as the prime minister of Greece. He was also deputy prime minister from 1950 to 1952,
Papandreou in 1964
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.
Axis occupation of Greece
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The occupation of Greece by the Axis powers began in April 1941 after the German invasion of Greece to assist its ally, Italy, in the Greco-Italian War had begun in October 1940. Following the Battle
Georgios Papandreou
…arrested and exiled in 1938 by the 4th of August Regime, remaining in exile for four years. Imprisoned by Italian forces in World War II during the Axis Occupation of Greece, he agreed to head the Greek government–in–exile in 1944. As German forces evacuated Greece in October 1944, Papandreou became the first post–occupation…
1941. German soldiers raising the German War Flag over the Acropolis. It would be taken down by Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas in one of the first acts of resistance.
German artillery shelling the Metaxas Line
German soldiers in Athens, 1941