Inside Hitler's Greece

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This gripping and richly illustrated account of wartime Greece explores the impact of the Nazi Occupation upon the lives and values of ordinary people. The first full account of the experience of occupation, it offers a vividly human picture of resistance fighters and black marketeers, teenage German conscripts and Gestapo officers, Jews and starving villagers. "Fascinating. . . . [Mazower] succeeds in getting under the skin of the occupation. . . . [This book] conjures up, in vivid detail, life under an occupation that had shattered old certainties and replaced them with painful choices, cynical compromises, and hopes undercut by the daily death toll."—Mark Almond, New York Times "A vivid picture of the German occupier’s mind and actions. . . . Mazower’s arguments are always fair."—Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review "A superb book on the horrors afflicting wartime Greece. . . . [Mazower] has done vast archival research and emerged with a gripping, readable and human account, setting every moment of a tragic period in appropriate context."—Fritz Stern, Foreign Affairs "[A] sensitive, illuminating and richly textured account of painful, complex experience."—Richard Overy, Observer Mark Mazower is professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London, and author of Dark Continent. Contents List of Illustrations Introduction Acknowledgements Abbreviations and Foreign Terms Prologue: Swastika over the Acropolis PART I: The Chaos of the New Order: 1941-43 1. Venizelos's Funeral 2. The Occupation Begins 3. The Famine 4. Black Market Axioms 5. 'An Atmosphere of Imminent Catastrophe' 6. Greek Workers in the Reich 7. Dreams of a New Europe PART II: 'This Heroic Madness': 1941-43 8. The Resistance of Daily Life 9. Prudence or Bravery? The Old Politicians 10. Becoming Organised 11. Urban Protest 12. 'Freedom or Death!' 13. Politics of the Andartiko 14. The End of Italian Rule PART III: The Logic of Violence and Terror: 1943-44 15. The Logic of Violence 16. Anatomy of a Massacre: 16 August 1943 17. 'The Loveliest Time': the Behaviour and Values of the German Soldier 18. The SS and the Terror System 19. Greek Jewry and the Final Solution PART IV: A Society at War: 1943-44 20. People's Democracy in Free Greece 21. ELAS: the People's Liberation Army 22. 'A Cemetery Awash in Blood': the Counter-Revolution 23. 'Tired Out by History': Athens '44 Epilogue: 'No Peace without Victory' Notes Archival Sources Note on Sources Index