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To: Diplomat
"... Did the Germans infiltrate your country and make it so that Greece is the largest welfare recipient in all of the EU?"

Well, yes. April 6 – April 30, 1941.

The Italians and Bulgarians helped.

97 posted on 02/16/2010 1:49:38 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
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To: The KG9 Kid

The Italians never made it into Greece. The Greeks spanked them in Albania and forced hitler to use real troops to take Greece. Thousands of the Greek soldiers and military commanders fled as a result of the nazi invasion. The only group to make a determined stand against the nazis, were the Cretians. The follow on Greek resistance movements ended up fighting themselves more so than the nazi occupiers.

I suppose if the Greeks want to claim some sort of military prowess, they could argue that they held out longer than France did.


110 posted on 02/16/2010 2:22:46 PM PST by Diplomat
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