1941

Events

April

• April 18: Days before Greece capitulates to the Germans, PM Alexandros Korizis commits suicide.

May

• May 20: The Battle of Crete begins.
• May 30: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas take down the German flag from the Acropolis, Athens.

June

• June 3: German occupation troops enter and destroy the village of Kandanos, Crete.

Deaths

January

• January 29: Ioannis Metaxas, Greek PM during World War II.

April

• April 18: Alexandros Korizis, Greek PM who succeeded Metaxas.
• April 27: Penelope Delta, writer