Difference between revisions of "1942"

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February 5: The EAM Youth Movement is founded during the Axis occupation of Greece.

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 28: Future Foreign Minister Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza is arrested by the Italian occupation forces for resistance-related activities.

June 14: 50 Greeks are executed by German occupation troops in Heraklion, Crete.

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.

November 11: Greeks in Istanbul are subjected to the Varlik Vergisi by the Turkish Parliament.
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 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.

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 ===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.
 ===June===
 *[[June 14]]: 50 Greeks are executed by German occupation troops in [[Heraklion]], [[Crete]].