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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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
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  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
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  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-295) and index
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Description
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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