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The [[National Liberation Front]] ('''Ethniko Apeleftherotiko Metopo (&#REDIRECT 917;ΑΜ)''' ([[Greek language|Greek]] '''Εθνικό Απελευθερωτικό Μέτωπο (ΕΑΜ)''') was the resistance movement founded on [[September 27]], [[1941]], by the [[Communist Party of Greece]] (KKE), in cooperation with various other leftist groups, during [[World War II]] against the Nazi occupation. Its purely military wing was the ''[[Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos]]'' (ELAS); it also had a "navy" (ELAN) "[[National People's Liberational Navy]]" ''Ethniko Laiko Apeleftherotiko Naftiko'' but engaged primarily in land-based resistance to the German occupying forces. [[EAMCategory:Militia Groups]]
