The following article deals with the case of the unknown concentration camp operated by the Italian occupation forces in the region of Katouna, Aetolia-Acarnania. In this camp, prisoners of war from the Greek army, as well as communist political prisoners transferred there from the Akronauplia prison, were detained. The article analyzes the history of their imprisonment, as well as aspects of the organization of the political prisoners’ lives, and forms of resistance, during the time they remained in this camp.

This article approaches the ritualization mechanisms of the local community of Eptachori of Kastoria during the relocation to Pentalofos Kozanis during the period of the Greek Civil War. Through the mechanisms of ritualization that will be analyzed in more detail, the permanent connection of the residences with their birthplace was achieved when they were forced by the National Army to leave it in September 1947.

After the end of World War II, Greek state vigorously resumed its efforts to influence social morality by implementing strict police measures to address a thorny issue, that of prostitution. Prostitution, which was considered by the state reformers a result of a social decay during the occupation period, was also deemed primarily responsible for the spread of venereal diseases and sexual immorality. Therefore, for a nation that had just emerged deeply wounded from the war and was in the midst of social and political turmoil, the issue of prostitution re-emerged as a threat to the very existence of the Greek state, and its eradication became a matter of national importance. This article focuses on the social dimensions of prostitution and the state control policies in the post-war Greek state, with an emphasis on Thessaloniki.

Following the end of the bloodstained Civil War (1946-1949), the Greek post-war society tried to follow the footsteps of the developed West. Thus, brothels and disreputable neighborhoods in urban centers no longer had any place in a modern city. However, the closure of brothels in post-war Thessaloniki caused several problems for which the state was completely unprepared. It quickly became apparent that it was not feasible to eradicate prostitution, especially through police measures. The notorious red-light districts of Thessaloniki, Bara and Vardaris, could not magically disappear with the implementation of the legislative provisions of Law 3032/22. In the decades that followed, these neighborhoods, despite gentrification efforts, continued to provide sexual services to city visitors, soldiers, and the local clientele.