WWII

The process of officially exhuming the remains of thousands of Greek soldiers who fell in the mountains of southern Albania at the start of WWII is to begin Monday, with the activation of a bilateral agreement signed by Greece...

A lot of history is being revoked during and around the Oct.28 "OXI Day" celebrations in Greece. After all, it was one of the most heroic eras of the country's history. Today we focus on the first Greek casualty of...

An exhibition of historical photographs at the National Archaeological Museum (NAM) will commemorate OXI DAY, when Greece turned down an Italian ultimatum for free passage on October 28, 1940 and thus entered World War II. "In the shadow of the...

The World War II bomb that was found in the Kordelio suburb of Thessaloniki was removed from the area and was transferred to an army shooting range for a controlled explosion on Sunday. A Greek army unit disabled the 250kg...

On this day in 1944 during WWII a group of Jewish Greeks held prisoner at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camp organized a revolt -- the only one of its kind documented until this day -- against their Nazi captors. By...

Greece should initially claim the German debts through negotiations with the German government but also in court if Germany insists on its current negative stance, said Greek parliament's intergroup committee for the claim of German debts report that was...

The wreck of the submarine, Katsonis (Y1), that had been torpedoed by a German warship during World War II north of the Sporadic island of Skiathos was found after 73 years. The historic wreck was found by the Nautilus...

The abandoned village at the foot of Mount Profitis Ilias was built by Italians during World War II. They settled there, eyeing the timber trade but also hoping to exploit the forest area for tourism. High officials gathered here,...

President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Sunday referred at length to the issue of German war reparations and a forced occupation loan demanded by the Nazi administration, during his speech at an event in the town of...

OXI, the word NO in Greek, may sound like a negative. But it has become a positive word after PM Metaxas said OXI to the Nazi forces passing through Greece.