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Security Battalions, the Glossary

The Security Battalions (Tagmata Asfaleias, derisively known as Germanotsoliades (Γερμανοτσολιάδες, meaning "German tsoliás") or Tagmatasfalites (Ταγματασφαλίτες)) were Greek collaborationist paramilitary groups, formed during the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II in order to support the German occupation troops.^[1]

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1943 establishments in Greece
1944 disestablishments in Greece
Anti-communism in Greece
Axis occupation of Greece
Fascism in Greece
Greek collaborators with Nazi Germany
Greek war crimes
Military history of Greece during World War II
Paramilitary organizations based in Greece

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945.

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Alexander Löhr

Alexander Löhr (20 May 1885 – 26 February 1947) was an Austrian Air Force commander during the 1930s and, after the annexation of Austria, he was a Luftwaffe commander.

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Anti-communism

Anti-communism is political and ideological opposition to communist beliefs, groups, and individuals.

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Athens

Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.

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Axis occupation of Greece

The occupation of Greece by the Axis Powers (the occupation) began in April 1941 after Nazi Germany invaded the Kingdom of Greece in order to assist its ally, Italy, in their ongoing war that was initiated in October 1940, having encountered major strategical difficulties. Security Battalions and Axis occupation of Greece are Fascism in Greece.

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Axis powers

The Axis powers, originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis and also Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, was a military coalition that initiated World War II and fought against the Allies.

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Battle of Meligalas

The Battle of Meligalas (Machi tou Meligala) took place at Meligalas in Messenia in southwestern Greece, on 13–15 September 1944, between the Greek Resistance forces of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) and the collaborationist Security Battalions.

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Bolshevism

Bolshevism (derived from Bolshevik) is a revolutionary socialist current of Soviet Leninist and later Marxist–Leninist political thought and political regime associated with the formation of a rigidly centralized, cohesive and disciplined party of social revolution, focused on overthrowing the existing capitalist state system, seizing power and establishing the "dictatorship of the proletariat".

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Central Greece (geographic region)

Continental Greece (Stereá Elláda; formerly Χέρσος Ἑλλάς, Chérsos Ellás), colloquially known as Roúmeli (Ρούμελη), is a traditional geographic region of Greece.

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Cities Police

The Cities Police (Αστυνομία Πόλεων) was a Greek police force extant from 1921 to 1984, responsible for policing urban areas.

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Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy

In World War II, many governments, organizations and individuals collaborated with the Axis powers, "out of conviction, desperation, or under coercion." Nationalists sometimes welcomed German or Italian troops they believed would liberate their countries from colonization. Security Battalions and Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy are collaboration with Nazi Germany.

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Communist Party of Greece

The Communist Party of Greece (Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας, Kommounistikó Kómma Elládas, KKE) is a Marxist–Leninist political party in Greece.

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Dekemvriana

The Dekemvriana (Δεκεμβριανά, "December events") refers to a series of clashes fought during World War II in Athens from 3 December 1944 to 11 January 1945. Security Battalions and Dekemvriana are military history of Greece during World War II.

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Democratic Army of Greece

The Democratic Army of Greece (DAG; Dimokratikós Stratós Elládas - DSE) was the army founded by the Communist Party of Greece during the Greek Civil War (1946–1949). Security Battalions and Democratic Army of Greece are paramilitary organizations based in Greece.

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Donald Stott

Major Donald John Stott, DSO & Bar (23 October 1914 – 20 March 1945) was a New Zealand soldier and military intelligence agent during the Second World War.

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Eastern Front (World War II)

The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in contemporary German and Ukrainian historiographies, was a theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Allies, including the Soviet Union (USSR) and Poland.

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ELAS

The Greek People's Liberation Army (Ελληνικός Λαϊκός Απελευθερωτικός Στρατός (ΕΛΑΣ), Ellinikós Laïkós Apeleftherotikós Stratós; ELAS) was the military arm of the left-wing National Liberation Front (EAM) during the period of the Greek resistance until February 1945, when, following the Dekemvriana clashes and the Varkiza Agreement, it was disarmed and disbanded.

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Evzones

The Evzones or Evzonoi (Εύζωνες, Εύζωνοι) were a type of light infantry units in the Hellenic Army.

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Far-right politics

Far-right politics, or right-wing extremism, is a spectrum of political thought that tends to be radically conservative, ultra-nationalist, and authoritarian, often also including nativist tendencies.

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Federal Foreign Office

The Federal Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt), abbreviated AA, is the foreign ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany, a federal agency responsible for both the country's foreign policy and its relationship with the European Union.

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Franz Krech

Major General (Generalmajor) Franz Krech (23 June 1889 – 27 April 1944) was the German commander of the 41st Fortress Division of the Wehrmacht during the World War II Axis occupation of Greece.

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Geheime Feldpolizei

The Geheime Feldpolizei, shortened to GFP, was the secret military police of the German Wehrmacht until the end of the Second World War (1945).

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Georgios Papadopoulos

Georgios Papadopoulos (Γεώργιος Παπαδόπουλος; 5 May 1919 – 27 June 1999) was a Greek military officer and dictator who led a coup d'etat in Greece in 1967 and became the country's Prime Minister from 1967 to 1973. Security Battalions and Georgios Papadopoulos are Greek collaborators with Nazi Germany.

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Georgios Poulos

Georgios Poulos (Γεώργιος Πούλος; 1889, Romania – 11 June 1949) was a Greek Army colonel and Nazi collaborator during the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II.

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Greco-Italian War

The Greco-Italian War (Ellinoïtalikós Pólemos), also called the Italo-Greek War, Italian campaign in Greece, Italian invasion of Greece, and the War of '40 in Greece, took place between Italy and Greece from 28 October 1940 to 23 April 1941. Security Battalions and Greco-Italian War are military history of Greece during World War II.

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Greek Civil War

The Greek Civil War (translit) took place from 1946 to 1949. Security Battalions and Greek Civil War are Anti-communism in Greece.

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Greek government-in-exile

The Greek government-in-exile was formed in 1941, in the aftermath of the Battle of Greece and the subsequent occupation of Greece by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

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Greek junta

The Greek junta or Regime of the Colonels was a right-wing military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974. Security Battalions and Greek junta are Anti-communism in Greece and Fascism in Greece.

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Grigoris Lambrakis

Grigoris Lambrakis (Γρηγόρης Λαμπράκης; 3 April 1912 – 27 May 1963) was a Greek politician, physician, athlete, and lecturer.

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Hellenic Army

The Hellenic Army (Ellinikós Stratós, sometimes abbreviated as ΕΣ), formed in 1828, is the land force of Greece.

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Hellenic Gendarmerie

The Hellenic Gendarmerie (Elliniki Chorofylaki) was the national gendarmerie and military police (until 1951) force of Greece.

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Hellenic State (1941–1944)

The Hellenic State (Elliniki Politeia, also translated as Greek State) was the collaborationist government of Greece during the country's occupation by the Axis powers in the Second World War. Security Battalions and Hellenic State (1941–1944) are 1944 disestablishments in Greece, Axis occupation of Greece, Fascism in Greece and Greek collaborators with Nazi Germany.

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Hermann Neubacher

Hermann Neubacher (24 June 1893 – 1 July 1960) was an Austrian Nazi politician who held a number of diplomatic posts in the Third Reich.

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Ioannis Rallis

Ioannis Rallis (Ιωάννης Δ.; 1878 – 26 October 1946) was the third and last collaborationist prime minister of Greece during the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II, holding office from 7 April 1943 to 12 October 1944, succeeding Konstantinos Logothetopoulos in the Nazi-controlled Greek puppet government in Athens. Security Battalions and Ioannis Rallis are Fascism in Greece and Greek collaborators with Nazi Germany.

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Lee Metcalf

Lee Warren Metcalf (January 28, 1911 – January 12, 1978) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician.

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Lieutenant general

Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a military rank used in many countries.

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Makronisos

Makronisos (Μακρόνησος, lit. Long Island), or Makronisi, is an island in the Aegean Sea, in Greece, notorious as the site of a political prison from the 1920s to the 1970s.

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Mark Mazower

Mark Mazower (born 20 February 1958) is a British historian.

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National Liberation Front (Greece)

The National Liberation Front (Εθνικό Απελευθερωτικό Μέτωπο, Ethnikó Apeleftherotikó Métopo (EAM) was an alliance of various political parties and organizations which fought to liberate Greece from Axis Occupation. Security Battalions and National Liberation Front (Greece) are military history of Greece during World War II.

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National Schism

The National Schism (Ethnikós Dichasmós), also sometimes called The Great Division, was a series of disagreements between King Constantine I and Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos regarding the foreign policy of Greece in the period of 1910–1922 of which the tipping point was whether Greece should enter World War I.

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National Union of Greece

The National Union of Greece (Εθνική Ένωσις Ελλάδος, Ethniki Enosis Ellados or EEE) was a far-right political party established in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1927. Security Battalions and National Union of Greece are 1944 disestablishments in Greece, Fascism in Greece and Greek collaborators with Nazi Germany.

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Paramilitary

A paramilitary is a military that is not part of a country's official or legitimate armed forces.

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Patras

Patras (Pátra; Katharevousa and Πάτραι; Patrae) is Greece's third-largest city and the regional capital and largest city of Western Greece, in the northern Peloponnese, west of Athens.

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Peloponnese

The Peloponnese, Peloponnesus (Pelopónnēsos) or Morea (Mōrèas; Mōriàs) is a peninsula and geographic region in Southern Greece, and the southernmost region of the Balkans.

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Pogrom against the wounded veterans (1943)

The Pogrom against the disabled took place on the night of November 30, 1943, in Athens, Greece by the collaborationist Security Battalions.

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Ronald Scobie

Lieutenant-General Sir Ronald MacKenzie Scobie, (8 June 1893 – 23 February 1969) was a senior British Army officer who fought in both the First and Second World Wars, where he commanded the 70th Infantry Division and later III Corps.

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Schutzstaffel

The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylised as ᛋᛋ with Armanen runes) was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.

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Sicherheitspolizei

The (Security Police), often abbreviated as SiPo, was a term used in Germany for security police.

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Theodoros Pangalos

Lieutenant General Theodoros Pangalos (11 January 1878 – 26 February 1952) was a Greek general, politician and dictator. Security Battalions and Theodoros Pangalos are Greek collaborators with Nazi Germany.

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Treason

Treason is the crime of attacking a state authority to which one owes allegiance.

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Treaty of Varkiza

The Treaty of Varkiza (Συμφωνία της Βάρκιζας, also known as the Varkiza Pact or the Varkiza Peace Agreement) was signed in Varkiza (near Athens) on February 12, 1945, between the Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) for EAM-ELAS, following the latter's defeat during the Dekemvriana clashes.

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Walter Blume (SS officer)

Walter Blume (23 July 1906 – 13 November 1974) was a mid-ranking SS commander and leader of ''Sonderkommando'' 7a, part of the extermination commando group Einsatzgruppe B. The unit perpetrated the killings of thousands of Jews in Belarus and Russia.

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Walter Schimana

Walter Schimana (12 March 1898 – 12 September 1948) was an Austrian functionary in the German SS during the Nazi era.

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Wartime collaboration

Wartime collaboration is cooperation with the enemy against one's country of citizenship in wartime.

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Wehrmacht

The Wehrmacht were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945.

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White Terror (Greece)

White Terror (Λευκή Τρομοκρατία) is the term used in Greece, analogous to similar cases, for the period of persecution of members of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and other former members of the leftist World War II-era resistance organization National Liberation Front (EAM) in 1945–46, prior to the outbreak of the Greek Civil War. Security Battalions and White Terror (Greece) are Anti-communism in Greece and Greek war crimes.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Battalions

, Treaty of Varkiza, Walter Blume (SS officer), Walter Schimana, Wartime collaboration, Wehrmacht, White Terror (Greece), Winston Churchill, World War II, Xenophon Giosmas.

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See also

1943 establishments in Greece

1944 disestablishments in Greece

Anti-communism in Greece

Axis occupation of Greece

Fascism in Greece

Greek collaborators with Nazi Germany

Greek war crimes

Military history of Greece during World War II

Paramilitary organizations based in Greece

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