Plundered loyalties : World War II and civil war in Greek West Macedonia
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Plundered loyalties : World War II and civil war in Greek West Macedonia
New York University Press, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-295) and index
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This is an exploration of the impact of the Axis occupation (1941-44) and the Greek Civil War (1946-49) on Greek West Macedonia's multilingual and deeply fragmented population. The author describes how the political situation in that mountainous region was enormously complicated, being defined by occupying forces, their "collaborators", and resistance organizations. Guerrilla activity and the attendant harsh reprisals brought great suffering to the peasants as a result of the growing ferocity of the occupiers. The fight against the occupying forces and the need to build and maintain as formidable a guerrilla army as possible obliged the resistance forces to press their units' unwilling recruits and even wage war against resistance forces ideologically opposed to them. The book goes on to examine how the situation became even more tortuous in the years of civil strife after the war, when yesterday's heroes turned rebel against the legitimate government of the country.
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