page_title: Military history of Greece during World War II
section_title: Resistance
hierarchical_section_title: Military history of Greece during World War II / Occupation / Resistance
caption_attribution_description: English: Monument of the ELAS - World War II main Greek Resistance armed forces, 1941-1944. There is no info about the author of that sculpture. The info is about its fundators - the former Greek Resistance members organizations. Polski: Galatsi, dzielnica Aten. Pomnik upamiętniający ruch oporu ELAS, 1941-1944 (Ellinikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos - dosłownie: Greckie Ludowe Wyzwoleńcze Wojsko). Przy obiekcie brakuje info o autorze rzeźby, istnieje natomiast informacja o fundatorach - organizacjach kombatanckich. Pomnik stanowi część skweru pamięci. Umieszczona na pomniku tablica, przytacza refren nieoficjalnego hymnu ELAS: "Naprzód ELAS&#160;! Dla Grecji&#160;!" i informację: "Bojownikom o wolność i suwerenność". Wokół postumentu rozmieszczono 11 tablic - pamiątkowych, z których trzy zniszczyli wandale, nieznani z imienia.
context_page_description: The military history of Greece during World War II began on 28 October 1940, when the Italian Army invaded from Albania, beginning the Greco-Italian War. The Greek Army was able to halt the invasion temporarily and was able to push the Italians back into Albania. The Greek successes forced Nazi Germany to intervene. The Germans invaded Greece and Yugoslavia on 6 April 1941, and overran both countries within a month, despite British aid to Greece in the form of an expeditionary corps. The conquest of Greece was completed in May with the capture of Crete from the air, although the Fallschirmjäger suffered such extensive casualties in this operation that the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht abandoned large-scale airborne operations for the remainder of the war. The German diversion of resources in the Balkans is also considered by some historians to have delayed the launch of the invasion of the Soviet Union by a critical month, which proved disastrous when the German Army failed to take Moscow.
  Greece itself was occupied and divided between Germany, Italy, and Bulgaria, while the King and the government fled into exile in Egypt.
caption: A monument for Greek People's Liberation Army