Ethniko Apeleftherotiko Metopo

The Ethniko Apeleftherotiko Metopo (ΕΑΜ) (Greek Εθηνικό Απελευθερωτικό Μέτωπο (ΕΑΜ), "National Liberation Front") was the resistance movement founded by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) 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.