A compilation of introductory articles by several authors about different aspects of the regime.

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General aspects

• The political events leading to the establishment of the Metaxas regime
• Brief summary of the Metaxas dictatorship
• How others saw the Metaxas regime
• Why did Metaxas not have a mass party?
• The 1940 pro-Axis plot against Metaxas

 

Specific aspects

• Archaeology under Metaxas
• The economic policy of the 4th of August regime
• Tourism under the Metaxas regime
• Censorship in the 4th of August State
• The Labour Battalions (Τάγματα Εργασίας)
• Metaxas, demotic Greek and the language question
• Cycladic architectural scenery – A gift from Metaxas?
• Greece and Romania in 1939
• The persecution of minorities
• The Greek arms industry under the 4th of August regime
• Architecture in Metaxas’ Greece
• The railway-based mobile propaganda exhibit
• Opposition against the Metaxas regime
• Book burnings under Metaxas’ rule

 

Ideology

• The ideological precedents of Greek fascism
• The ideology of the Metaxas regime
• The past in Metaxas’ ideology
• Propaganda and ideology of the 4th of August regime in the context of Hitler’s ‘New European Order’
• The Third Hellenic Civilization
• Metaxas, Women, and the Nation
• To Neon Kratos
• Was the 4th of August regime really fascist?
• The 4th of August – Towards a corporatist state

 

Symbology

• Symbols of the Metaxas regime (4th of August State)
• The labrys/pelekys axe: the symbol of thundergod Zeus and of the EON
• Nelly’s involvement in the propaganda machinery of the 4th of August State

 

The National Youth Organization EON

• The EON – The Greek fascist youth of Metaxas
• The EON at the “Freude und Arbeit” exhibition in Bucharest, 1939
• Comparision between the Greek fascist youth EON and the Croatian Ustasha youth Ustaška Mladež
• The EON against the Scouting movement
• Remebering the ceremony of the first EON phalanx

 

The 28th of October

• Lest we forget the 28th of October 1940!
• A letter from Metaxas’ wife about October 28th, 1940

 

Military and War entanglements

• The defence strategy of the Metaxas regime: Armed neutrality
• The Metaxas Line
• 1940 – The formation of the 1st Greek ski battalion
• Short account of the Greek Epopee of 1940
• Australia’s media on the outbreak of the Greek-Italian War
• The Greco-Italian War (1940)
• The Greco-German War (1941)

 

End of the regime

• The developments leading to Metaxas’ death
• Metaxas’ political testament
• The pledges of Koryzis and King George II upon Metaxas’ death
• Did the 4th of August regime end with Metaxas’ death?
• From Metaxas to Tsolakoglou: From dictatorship to collaborationism
• The collaborationist purge of the Metaxas regime