Georgios Poulos

Georgios Poulos

Colonel Georgios Poulos was a Nazi collaborator during the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II. He participated in Sonderkommando 2000, a German plan which aimed at infiltrating the Greek resistance movement. Poulos also worked for the National Union of Greece (EEE), an antisemitic party sponsored by the SS. As a leader of a paramilitary extreme-right group, Poulos organised and committed many crimes in the rural areas of Greece; the most notorious was the attack on Giannitsa in September 1944, during which about a hundred peasants were executed. The aim of the executions was to instill terror into the supporters of the left-wing EAM/ELAS, as Giannitsa was considered an important resistance centre. However, Poulos and his men killed in an indiscriminate fashion and it is probable that most of the victims had little to do with the Resistance. After the German Occupation, Poulos was tried and executed.

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*Mark Mazower, "Inside Hitler's Greece. The Experience of Occupation", 1941-44,(Greek translation), Athens: Αλεξάνδρεια, 1994(1993), pp. 365-9.


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