Greek resistance

Greek resistance
	Part of the Balkans Campaign of World War II and the Resistance against the Axis Powers
	; Athens University students parading on Greek National Indpendence Day (25 March) 1942, in defiance of the German and Italian occupation forces; the parade was eventually dispersed by Axis troops.
Date	April 1941 – October 1944; (until May 1945 in some Greek islands, including Crete)
Location	Greece
Result	Greek-Allied victory Overall German withdrawal by October 1944; Liberation in parts of the mainland and establishment of a "Free Greece"; Support to the Allied Victory; Rise of EAM-ELAS and first phase of the Greek Civil War;
Belligerents
Germany; Italy (until Sep. 1943); Bulgaria (until Sep. 1944); Hellenic State; Secessionist groups:; Ohrana; Këshilla; Roman Legion (until Sep. 1943)	EAM-ELAS EDES; EKKA; PAO; EOK; and others...; Supported by:; United Kingdom (SOE); Greek government-in-exile
Commanders and leaders
Günther Altenburg; Wilhelm List; Walter Kuntze; Hermann Neubacher; Alexander Löhr; Walter Schimana; Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller; Pellegrino Ghigi; Carlo Geloso; Carlo Vecchiarelli; Inigo Campioni; Piero Parini; Ivan Markov; Trifon Trifonov; Asen Sirakov; Georgios Tsolakoglou; Konstantinos Logothetopoulos; Ioannis Rallis; Georgios Bakos ; Georgios Poulos; Andon Kalchev; Xhemil Dino; Alcibiades Diamandi; Nicolaos Matussis; Vassilis Rapotikas †	Aris Velouchiotis; Stefanos Sarafis; Andreas Tzimas; Evripidis Bakirtzis; Alexandros Svolos; Georgios Siantos; Napoleon Zervas; Komninos Pyromaglou; Dimitrios Psarros ; Georgios Kartalis; Nikolaos Plastiras; Kostas Perrikos Eddie Myers; C.M. Woodhouse; Patrick Leigh Fermor; W. Stanley Moss; Themis Marinos
Strength
A total of 205,000+ men: 100,000 Germans, 40,000 Bulgarians, 40,000 others (1943); 25,000 men of Security Battalions, Poulos Verband etc	45,000 men of ELAS (1944); 10,000 men of EDES (1944); 1,500 of EKKA and more
Casualties and losses
17,536 Germans killed ; 1,532 Bulgarians killed; 2,739 Italians killed; 8,000 injured (in total); 6,463 POW; Unknown number of collaborators; 36,270+ total casualties ;	4,500 ELAS members killed; 200 EKKA members; In total 20,650 partisans killed ; 10,000 injured (in total)
	50,000–70,000 civilians executed; c. 65,000 (including 60,000 Jews) were deported, of whom a small number survived; (300,000 died during the Great Famine)

The Greek resistance (Greek: Εθνική Αντίσταση, romanized: Ethnikí Antístasi, "National Resistance"), involved armed and unarmed groups from across the political spectrum that resisted the Axis occupation of Greece in the period 1941–1944, during World War II. The largest group was the Communist-dominated EAM-ELAS. The Greek Resistance is considered one of the strongest resistance movements in Nazi-occupied Europe, with partisans, men and women known as andartes and andartisses (Greek: αντάρτες, αντάρτισσες, romanized: antártes, antártises, meaning "male and female rebels"), controlling much of the countryside prior to the German withdrawal from Greece in late 1944.

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