Happy Oxi Day! Happy 28th of October to all Greeks out there!

Travel poster for Mount Athos, featuring the Monastery of Simonos Petra (1949).

Greek resistance fighters prepare to advance on a German held Police Station during a civil uprising - Athens 1944

Languages in Greece, census 1940.

by geomapas.gr

Herbert List's homoerotic photos in Italy & Greece 1930s-1940s

Lysistrata (1941)

Art by Jacques Touchet

Tyrone Power ♡ Film Stars Help Greece (1941)

The Olympic Champ, 1942

Mère et fils avant le départ du soldat pour le front albanais – Guerre italo-grecque – Campagne des Balkans – Octobre 1940

the west pediment from the temple of zeus at olympia, depicting a battle scene between lapiths and centaurs. the god apollo is in the center, stepping down to quell the carnage. postcard ca. 1940s

Happy Oxi Day! On this day, the 28th of October 1940, we celebrate and commemorate the morning that the Italian occupation started after the conversation the Greek Dicator Ioannis Metaxas had with the Italian Ambassador Emanuele Grazzi the night prior. On the morning eve of 28th of October at 02:45 am Ambassador Grazzi visited the Metaxas estate with orders from the Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini. According to Ambassador Grazzi, Dictator Mussolini wanted Greece and from Dicator Metaxas to take a neutral position in the, then current conflict known now as World War 2, allowing Italians to take over key points of Greece within its terrain that would benefit the Italian forces in the war and for Greece essentially to be under Italian occupation. The whole ordeal was an ultimatum made by dictator Mussolini and delivered through Ambassador Grazzi. The entire conversation took place in French and once Metaxas was done reading the terms he turned to Grazzi and said; "Alors, c'est la guerre" which translates to "And so we are at war.". The Italians didn't hold their promise to wait until 6 am to start the invasion they started at 5:30 am. And like that on the 28th of October 1940 at 5:30 am Greece entered World War 2.

Information taken by: (Angelos Terzakis, Greek Epic 1940-1941)

Postcard

View of Acropolis,Athens,Greece

1930s

A German MG nest keeps watch over the Aegean Sea - 1941

A peplum are perfect for those days when you can’t decide if you want to wear pants or a skirt, so you wear both at once!😄

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