1942

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Events

February

  • February 5: The EAM Youth Movement is founded during the Axis occupation of Greece.
  • February 16: The military wing of EAM - "ELAS" - is founded during the Axis occupation of Greece.

March

  • March 14: The Axis powers impose upon Greece a "loan" for their expenses in occupying the country. The loan was estimated in 1993 to be equivalent to US$9 billion of that time. The Axis powers promised to repay the loan "in the future".

April

  • April 28: Future Foreign Minister Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza is arrested by the Italian occupation forces for resistance-related activities.
  • April 30: The Greek government announces that bread will be distributed three times a week. Each person possessing the appropriate coupon will be entitled to 80 drams (250 grams) of bread each time.

June

July

  • July 28: Benito Mussolini arrives in Athens where he inspects his troops and holds talks with Greek officials of the occupation government.

September

  • September 11: The Greek forces in Egypt come under German airforce bombardment. Four soldiers are killed and ten are wounded.
  • September 12: The Greek submarine Papanikolis put the commandos ashore at Kokkini Ammos, Rhodes who, with the help of two local men - Nikos Savvas and Georgios Kyrmichalis, made their way to the airports at Kalathos and Maritsa, where they destroyed German war planes.
  • September 20: Resistance members belonging to PEAN blow up the offices of the "National Socialist Patriotic Organisation" killing 43 Germans and 23 Greek collaborators.

October

  • October 23: Greek units take part in the Battle of El Alamein.

November

  • November 11: Greeks in Istanbul are subjected to the Varlik Vergisi by the Turkish Parliament.
  • November 16: The Greek submarine "Triton" sinks a German tanker but is then itself sunk. 19 crew members perish.
  • November 25: Guerrilas from both EDES and ELAS blow up the Gorgopotamos Bridge used by Germans to supply Gen. Rommel's Afrika Korps.
  • November 30: Submarine Papanikolis, under Lt. Nicholas Roussen, sinks an enemy communications ship.

December

  • December 15: The British destroyer HMS Petard and Coast defense battleship Vasilissa Olga sink the Italian submarine Uarsciek (620 tons) south of Malta, towards the area of Benghazi, Libya.

Births

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September

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Deaths

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