After the War Was Over : Reconstructing the Family, Nation, and State in Greece, 1943-1960.

325 Pages·2016·4.708 MB·English

by  Mazower, Mark

After the War Was Over
PRINCETON MODERN GREEK STUDIES
This series is sponsored by the Princeton University Program in Hellenic Studies under
the auspices of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund.
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C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard; edited
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The Fourth Dimension by Yannis Ritsos. Peter Green and Beverly Bardsley, translators
George Seferis: Collected Poems, Revised Edition translated, edited, and introduced by
Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard
In a Different Place: Pilgrimage, Gender, and Politics at a Greek Island Shrine
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Cavafy’s Alexandria, Revised Edition by Edmund Keeley
The Films of Theo Angelopoulos: A Cinema of Contemplation by Andrew Horton
The Muslim Bonaparte: Diplomacy and Orientalism in Ali Pasha’s Greece
by Katherine E. Fleming
Venom in Verse: Aristophanes in Modern Greece by Gonda A. H. Van Steen
A Shared World: Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Mediterranean
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After the War Was Over: Reconstructing the Family, Nation, and State in Greece,
1943–1960 edited by Mark Mazower
After the War Was Over
reconstructing the
family, nation, and state
in greece,
–
1943 1960
Mark Mazower, Editor
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After the war was over : reconstructing the family, nation, and state in Greece,
1943–1960 / Mark Mazower, editor.
p. cm. — (Princeton modern Greek studies)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-691-05841-5 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-691-05842-3 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Greece—History—Civil War, 1944–1949. 2. Reconstruction
(1939–1951)—Greece—Political aspects. 3. Greeks—Social conditions—1945–
I. Mazower, Mark. II. Series.
DF849.5.A48 2000
949.507(cid:2)4—dc21 00-036680
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This book is dedicated to the memory of
Nancy Crawshaw
and
Mando Dalianis

Contents
Abbreviations and Glossary of Terms ix
Introduction 1
Mark Mazower
One
Three Forms of Political Justice: Greece, 1944–1945 24
Mark Mazower
Two
The Punishment of Collaborators in Northern Greece,
1945–1946 42
Eleni Haidia
Three
Purging the University after Liberation 62
Procopis Papastratis
Four
Between Negation and Self-Negation: Political Prisoners in
Greece, 1945–1950 73
Polymeris Voglis
Five
Children in Turmoil during the Civil War: Today’s Adults 91
Mando Dalianis and Mark Mazower
Six
Left-Wing Women between Politics and Family 105
Tassoula Vervenioti
Seven
The Impossible Return: Coping with Separation and the
Reconstruction of Memory in the Wake of the Civil War 122
Riki van Boeschoten
Eight
Red Terror: Leftist Violence during the Occupation 142
Stathis N. Kalyvas
Nine
The Civil War in Evrytania 184
John Sakkas
viii • Contents
Ten
The Policing of Deskati, 1942–1946 210
Lee Sarafis
Eleven
Protocol and Pageantry: Celebrating the Nation in
Northern Greece 221
Anastasia Karakasidou
Twelve
“After the War We Were All Together”: Jewish Memories
of Postwar Thessaloniki 247
Bea Lewkowicz
Thirteen
Memories of the Bulgarian Occupation of Eastern Macedonia:
Three Generations 273
Xanthippi Kotzageorgi-Zymari with Tassos Hadjianastassiou
Fourteen
“An Affair of Politics, Not Justice”: The Merten Trial
(1957–1959) and Greek-German Relations 293
Susanne-Sophia Spiliotis
List of Contributors 303
Index 305
Abbreviations and Glossary of Terms
Abbreviations
AGDNG Archeio Genikis Doiikisis Voreio Ellada
Historical Archive of Macedonia, Archives of the General
Directorate of Northern Greece
AGDWM Archeio Genikis Doiikisis Dytikis Makedonias
Archive of the General Directorate of Western Macedonia
AJDC American Joint Distribution Committee
ASKI Archeia Synchronis Koinonikis Istoria
Archive of Contemporary Social History, Athens
BA Bundesarchiv Koblenz
Federal Archives
BA/ZWA Bundesarchiv-Zwischenarchiv Hengelar
Federal Archives, Hengelar Archive
BLO British Liaison Officer
CJMCAG The Conference for Jewish Material Claims against
Germany
DSE Dimokratikos Stratos Ellados
Democratic Army of Greece
EA Ethniki Allilengyi
National Solidarity
EAM Ethniko Apeleftherotiko Metopo
National Liberation Front
EASAD Ethnikos Agrotikos Syndesmos Antikommounistikis
Draseos
National Agrarian Federation of Anticommunist Action
EDA Eniaia Dimokratiki Aristera
United Democratic Left
EDES Ethnikos Dimokratikos Ellinikos Syndesmos
National Republican Greek league
ELAS Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos
National People’s Liberation Army
EP Ehniki Politofylaki
Civil Guard (EAM)
EPON Eniaia Panelladiki Organosi Neon
United Panhellenic Organization of Youth