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List of years in Greece
This is a list of events that happened in 1943 in
Greece
.
Incumbents
[
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]
Monarch
:
George II
Prime Minister
:
Emmanouil Tsouderos
Events
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]
16–17 February –
Domenikon massacre
by the Italian Army.
7 April –
Konstantinos Logothetopoulos
is dismissed as collaborationist Prime Minister and is succeeded by
Ioannis Rallis
.
14 May – The forces of
EAM-ELAS
attack the
EKKA
's 5/42 Regiment.
23 June – The forces of
EAM-ELAS
attack the
EKKA
's 5/42 Regiment and forcibly dissolve it.
5 July – The main Greek resistance groups conclude the
National Bands Agreement
.
12 August – Massacre of
Kommeno
by the German Army.
8 September – The Italian garrison on
Kastellorizo
surrenders to the Allies.
8 September –
Jürgen Stroop
becomes the country's
HSSPF
.
9–11 September – The Germans under
Ulrich Kleemann
seize Rhodes from the Italians.
14–16 September –
Viannos massacres
by the German Army.
15–24 September –
Massacre of the Acqui Division
on the island of
Cephalonia
by the German Army.
19–29 September – The
Paramythia executions
by the German Army and local Albanian collaborators.
3–4 October –
Battle of Kos
: the Germans capture the island of Kos against British and Italian resistance.
9 November –
Walter Schimana
becomes the country's
HSSPF
.
12–16 November –
Battle of Leros
: the Germans capture the island of Leros against British and Italian resistance.
13 December 1943 –
Massacre of Kalavryta
by the German Army.
14 December – 300 Allied bomber raid
Athens
.
15 December – Allied bombers raid
Piraeus
harbor and Greek airfields.
18 December –
Drakeia massacre
by the SS.
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Births
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]
28 May -
Elena Souliotis
, operatic soprano (d. 2004)
References
[
edit
]
^
Foot, J. (7 December 2009).
Italy's Divided Memory
. Springer. p. 146.
ISBN
978-0-230-10183-8
.
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