The German occupation in Greece, during the April 1941 and October 1944, destroyed the economy through war compensation. This plundered the country’s resources.
When the German Nazi’s withdrew left Greece in 1944, they left the infrastructure in ruins. A widespread famine spread through the urban centres on the First winter of the occupation, starvation killing an estimated amount of 300,000 civilians. This famine was the result of an Allied blockage and the indifference of the local’s needs shown by the Nazis. Malnutrition was very common throughout the Nazi occupation of Greece.
Malnutrition and famine were not the only two causes that killed, thousands of civilians were executed by the Nazi forces and retaliation for the partisan activities.
The Jewish community in Greece, was mostly eradicated as a part of the Holocaust. the percentage of the total pre-war Jewish population of Greece that perished was 81%.
The social upheaval would be the most bitter and longest-lasting legacy of the Nazi occupation of Greece. with the side-lining of the old political elites and the resistance against the Axis powers brought the leftist National Liberation Front forward. This was the first recorded, true mass-movement Greece had ever seen, with the communists playing the main role.
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President Harry S. Truman rescinded the penal JCS 1067, on the basis of “national security”. This had directed that the occupation of Germany by the US forces would “take no steps looking toward the economic rehabilitation of Germany”. By 1977, this was replaced by the JCS. This strained that an “orderly, prosperous, Europe requires economic contributions of a stable and productive
When the German Nazi’s withdrew left Greece in 1944, they left the infrastructure in ruins. A widespread famine spread through the urban centres on the First winter of the occupation, starvation killing an estimated amount of 300,000 civilians. This famine was the result of an Allied blockage and the indifference of the local’s needs shown by the Nazis. Malnutrition was very common throughout the Nazi occupation of Greece.
Malnutrition and famine were not the only two causes that killed, thousands of civilians were executed by the Nazi forces and retaliation for the partisan activities.
The Jewish community in Greece, was mostly eradicated as a part of the Holocaust. the percentage of the total pre-war Jewish population of Greece that perished was 81%.
The social upheaval would be the most bitter and longest-lasting legacy of the Nazi occupation of Greece. with the side-lining of the old political elites and the resistance against the Axis powers brought the leftist National Liberation Front forward. This was the first recorded, true mass-movement Greece had ever seen, with the communists playing the main role.
As the Communist influence …show more content…
President Harry S. Truman rescinded the penal JCS 1067, on the basis of “national security”. This had directed that the occupation of Germany by the US forces would “take no steps looking toward the economic rehabilitation of Germany”. By 1977, this was replaced by the JCS. This strained that an “orderly, prosperous, Europe requires economic contributions of a stable and productive