During the Axis Occupation, the municipality of Pella constituted an area of intense controversy and conflict between different groups and interests. As it was expected, the resistance against the occupier brought about retaliation from its German and Bulgarian allies. The existence of a disparate population that spoke different languages (Slavophones and Vlachophones) gave to the Bulgarian, Yugoslav and Italo-Romanian propaganda the opportunity to be put in action and try to proselytize. Moreover, the monopolization of the resistance by EAM-ELAS and the hidden supremacy of KKE led to the pursuit of the opposing resistance organization YVE-PAO, and, in general, of all those that were aligned with it.
Even more, the cooperation of some Greeks with the Germans in weapon acquisition and their fight against EAM-ELAS increased the complexity of the situation. Unfortunately, these conflicts and fights were too bloody and divided the local community for many decades. The present study aims to record the dead people in the Municipality and to point out the complexity of the conflicts.
There has been utilization of the registry offices of the Municipalities, records, books, oral and written testimonies, monuments and, generally, all available sources.

This paper examines the persecution of Greek non-combatants in the context of the Greko-Italian War. In this sense, the forced displacement of the Greek minority and Greek citizens living in significant and concrete areas of southern Albania is analyzed. In addition, the living conditions in detention centers in Albania and Italy are investigated. Based on new archival sources, the extent and characteristics of these persecutions are examined.

This article examines cases of interpretation, german and non-german, before and during World War II. Interpreters and translators remain in the obscurity of historiography, as secondary actors when in fact they played an important role both on the battlefields and behind the scenes. In this context, an overview of their action is attempted. More in detail, an attempt is made to clarify their motivations, their selection criteria, the qualifications they had to have and, much more, their role at work when the war conditions suggested their necessity.The article aspires to contribute to a first assessment of the role of interpreters in war conditions that has not been studied in the greekbibliography so far.

The National Liberation Front (ΕΑΜ) takes over the administration of the district of Rhodope in the middle of September 1944, thus, filling the administrative gap left by the Bulgarian Occupation forces which depart after some time. Since the EAM takes charge, they start keeping records of the existing material such as cash and other goods and they seek solutions to tackle various problems such as the alimentation, the financial reconstruction, the restitution and enshrinement of institutions as well as the improvement of the local’s health levels. In the present article, there will be a brief presentation of the work of the EAM administration in the Prefecture of Rhodope between the middle of September until the end of March 1945, which was the time when the General Administration of Thrace takes charge, as is reported in the archival sources available in the General State Archives (GAK) in Komotini. The material emanates from the meeting’s proceedings of the Prefectural and Municipal Council which are included in the Archive of Rhodope Prefecture as well as the communal archives. Specifically, the author investigates the ways used by the EAM to encounter the social and financial problems as well as the continuities and discontinuities recorded during the transition period to the state authorities, in order to fill the bibliographical gap concerning the specific time period in the Rhodope area.

The occupation of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace by the Bulgarian troops during the Second World War inaugurated the implementation of a policy for the formation of a Bulgarian national community in this area. The policy of the Bulgarian occupation authorities resulted in the emergence of a number of people who naturalized as Bulgarian citizens during this period, obtaining the Bulgarian citizenship. The aim of this article is to approach this phenomenon which manifested on a mass level during this period in the Bulgarian occupation zone. With a case study of the city of Xanthi there will be an attempt to interpret the motives of these people and to approach the way in which this choice affected the relations within the local society, with those who retained Greek citizenship during this period.

Alexandroupolis was liberated from the Axis Occupation by the ELAS forces, the military wing of EAM (National Liberation Front), in September 1944. The EAM civil administration of the free region, away from the political, financial and cultural center of Greece, tried to face the alimentation problem, the seriously damaged political and social structures, the mass destruction of the transport and communication infrastructure, the lack of national currency and the restart of the greek educational system that ceased to exist under the Bulgarian Occupation. Despite the difficult conditions and the inexperience of the elected members of the Civil Council, the new radical administration model EAM attempted to apply started to function but stopped abruptly when political tensions escalated and the White Terror was launched against the leftish citizens leading to the outbreak of the Civil War.

This text refers to the foreign prisoners in Thessaloniki and especially to the Yugoslavs, who were found as a labor force for two years from 1943 to 1944 in the camps of Harmankioi and Pavlos Melas in Thessaloniki and in the three camps – branches of Pavlos Melas, those of Lianokladi, Domokos and of Kaitsa, a subject of “virgin” research. More specifically, it talks about the work they undertook, the places and conditions under which they worked, the specialty, the number of workers at each construction site and the time required to complete each project. The research was based mainly on Yugoslav sources, which confirms the uniqueness of the subject, aiming to highlight and place it in the wider scientific debate around the 1940s.

Athenian revue, the theatrical genre that satirizes current social and political issues, was confronted with momentous historical events in the 1940s: the Greco-Italian war, the German Occupation of Greece, the December events and the Civil War offered a rich array of topics to playwrights. However, not all aspects of these topics could find their way to the stage because of the circumstances of the time, for example censorship restrictions during the Occupation, the one-sided treatment of the Civil War or the attempt to maintain equal distances. This paper presents the main thematic axes around which Greek playwrights structured their revues during the 1940s and the manner in which their thematic choices were treated by theatre critics of the time.