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This photograph of resistance fighters in Crete posing with German rifles and hand-grenades has been making the rounds of Greek social media

The Battle of Crete will remain forever in military history as the scene of the largest German airborne operation of World War II

Countless masterpieces in the Louvre, such as the Nike, or Winged Victory of Samothrace, were saved from the Nazis in World War II. The Winged Victory of Samothrace is widely considered to be one of the most exquisite sculptures in the...

It was April 6, 1941 when Germany launched a massive attack on Greece's northern border after Italy failed to capture the country.

A letter sent by a former German soldier helped spur the restoration of Agios Dionysios Monastery on Mount Olympus which had been destroyed by the Nazis during WWII. It was one day in 1996 when prior Maximos of the New...

In April 1941, German troops invaded Athens. The next morning, Nazi officers went to the National Archaeological Museum to inspect the antiquities and assess which ones they would steal to transport them to Germany. However, to their surprise, the museum...

Throughout the history of Greece, "OXI" ("No") was exclaimed to the enemy at various times, most famously on "OXI Day." It was on the lips of Leonidas when he faced the mighty Persian army in Thermopylae many centuries ago....

The Viannos massacre, known as the “Viannos Holocaust,” was a mass extermination campaign launched by Nazi forces against the civilian residents of around twenty villages located in the areas of east Viannos and west Ierapetra provinces on the Greek...

The massacre at Distomo remains to this day one of the most heinous crimes the Nazis committed against innocent women and children

Greeks fought on the side of the Allies on D-Day, June 6, 1944, which was largest seaborne invasion in history.