The Greek Famine (1941 - 42) - Hidden Tragedy of Greece in World War II
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
- Why was there a famine in Greece during World War II? In this video you're going to learn about a dark aspect of life in Axis-occupied Greece in WW2. In April 1941 the German invasion of Greece (the Battle of Greece) began. The Greek Army fought along side Commonwealth Forces but the Germans prevailed. The Axis occupation of Greece saw Greece being partitioned. Greece saw a terrible famine (Great Famine). The puppet government (Hellenic State) that was installed headed by Georgios Tsolakoglou wasn't able to do much about it. Only when Britain lifted the blockade the food situation improved. By the time around 250,000 Greeks had died from the famine.
History Hustle presents: The Greek Famine (1941-1942) - Hidden Tragedy of Greece in World War II.
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My grandmother always said to me" eat all your food don't waste it,when I was young we didn't have much."
You are a "hero of history" for giving light the often forgotten tragedies that follow war such as famine and mass murder of civilians. I wish that I could meet you and shake your hand.
Sent me a message if you are ever in the Netherlands.
@@HistoryHustle I would like to meet you in some coffee shop when I go there. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).
Gosh, World War II was awful. Just so many atrocities, that I cannot fathom. I never knew about the Greek famine. Thank you for your videos, Stefan. They shine a light into things not really taught in school.
Many thanks once else for your reply Karen!
The situation in Athens and Piraeus, was out of control, hyperinflation was in full swing and the price of bread was increased 89-fold from April 1941 to June 1942. According to the records of the German army the mortality rate in Athens alone reached 300 deaths per day during December 1941, while the estimates of the Red Cross were much higher, at 400 deaths while in some days the death toll reached 1,000. The population of the islands was also affected by the famine, especially those living in Mykonos, Syros and Chios.
There are no accurate numbers of the famine deaths because civil registration records did not function during the occupation. In general, it is estimated that Greece suffered approximately 300,000 deaths during the Axis occupation as a result of famine and malnutrition. Congratulations for your excellent video about my country who suffered a lot during WW2.
Thanks for sharing this additional information.
@@HistoryHustle Welcome.
this famine was fault of britain because the then corrupt greek governmment allowed the british air force to use the greek soil as a basement to bomb the romanian oil fields which were extremly vital for the german army.Therefore germany at the moment had no choice but to eradicate the british forces from greece
Another excellent video, and one interesting point to consider the scale of the tragedy is that, in 1940 Greece's population was about 7.4 million people. 250.000 deaths from starvation is a huge number compared to the total number of people living in the country.
They suffered tremendously. Thanks for your reply.
The famine was the outcome of multiple factors
Some of them was the poor harvest due to war and mobilization
The almost complete destruction of infrastructure like railroads
The various occupation zones that was acting as separate states
The re direction of northern Greece harvest to Bulgaria
The British blockade
The un checked printing of money by the German occupation forces that lead to hyperinflation
And supplies sortiges since those bills didn't have any value - even German companies wouldn't accept them , leading to bankruptcies and more unemployment..
To give you a feeling how desperate things was
My grandfather's oldest brother died from starvation his now older brother took the decision to become a " saltadoros " basically join a gang of teenagers who was looting German depos for food or anything that can be sold in the black market like fuels and car tires
The idea was simple
If they jump all together to the guard it will be impossible to shoot them all eventually someone will nock out the guard
After all as he used to say " dieing from starvation might take weeks, gunshot will kill you almost immediately or in few hours at worse if you can't find help " he was 13 years old back then
Eventually he was arrested and waited for that shot he asked what they are waiting for
The translator told him " you are underage but where we are going to send you you going to wish that we had kill you tonight "
He was sent to Germany for slave labour..
3 years later returned half dead unable to speak with grey hair
its hardly surprising there was a "British blockade" when Greece was occupied by the Axis .. fair to say the Greek people's misfortunes were down to the Axis marching in. and the Greek govt were too slow allowing Allied troops to deploy to Greece in 1941. the British threw away an opportunity to knock the Allies out of North Africa to come to Greece's aid.
Incredible to read. What a sad story. Thanks for sharing though.
@@HistoryHustle those family stories are very common in urban centres especially Athens and Thessaloniki..
Something also very common in post ww2 Greece was a sort of PTSD known at the time as the " occupation syndrome" people was eating like there is no tomorrow, often grandparents that had it would have chocolate bars ect in their pockets or buy junk food for their grandchildren because " they are to thin "
My grandfather had it as well
When my mother and aunt was telling him that he is going to make me and my cousins fat he often answering back " i have never seen a person dieing from to much food
I have seen many dieing from not having anything to eat"
this famine was fault of britain because the then corrupt greek governmment allowed the british air force to use the greek soil as a basement to bomb the romanian oil fields which were extremly vital for the german army.Therefore germany at the moment had no choice but to eradicate the british forces from greece
Another excellent video, Stefan. You know, there are many history channels that cover the military operations end, which is only 10% of the whole. While your channel covers that other 90%. Well done.
Great to read once more Paul. Cheers!
Thank you Stefan for presenting to the World the Tragedy of the German Occupation of Greece. My paretns had that "Occupation Syndrome" bec of the Starvation. They had to cook grass, any roots, make bread from acorn and wood shavings, many kids, were waiting outside bars, and when the drunk germans were vommiting, the kids were eating it, ... stories that still make my hair stand. I grew up listening to my parents that we must finish all our food on the plate , otherwise we "needed another german occupation" to appreciate our food.
Your Excellent Presentation would be more Complete, IF you would include that even today, the GERMANS REFUSE TO PAY WAR REPARATIONS TO GREECE.
Thanks for your reply.
Because the Nazi descendants are children of the devil.
My grandfather used to tell about the famine . The Germans would take everything from pasta to livestock. The Italians on the other hand after the plundering committed by the Germans would give to the families patsa and dairy products.
Thanks for sharing this.
My grandmother also says that the Italians were much more helpful than the Germans. In fact she remembers a story of some Italian soldiers sharing chocolate with her.
this famine was fault of britain because the then corrupt greek governmment allowed the british air force to use the greek soil as a basement to bomb the romanian oil fields which were extremly vital for the german army.Therefore germany at the moment had no choice but to eradicate the british forces from greece
A terrible tragedy, even after 1942 the food situation remained difficult.
I understand.
The Allies seem to have also caused a famine in Iran where millions died. Everyone was pointing fingers and nothing was done to save the citizens.
Yes, recently this was covered by the WW2 channel.
@@HistoryHustle That is where I got the information...thanks....love the channel!
@@HistoryHustleIT was in Ww1
Thank you for this video. The details of the Greek femine are absolutely horrifying. People without food for months were like zombies, and were dying by the hunderds everyday exactly where starvation was taking the last drop of their strength; on the streets, in their homes. There was practically nothing to eat. Goebbels himself wrote in his diary on this: _"hunger has become an endemic disease. On the streets of Athens, people are dying by the thousands from exhaustion"._
This was an unhuman, barbaric mass execution of civilians. One has to wonder: how is forcing someone to die of starvation any different from executing him with a gun? Some would even argue that a bullet *is a more humanitarian death compared to starvation.* This act on the part of the Germans was a genocide. Germany as we speak and since the end of ww2 *refuses* to recognize these people as victims of war and thus they refuse to pay reparations.
In relation to the above, yet another two issues the first of which is *unique* in the ww2 period; I think there's no other case like this:
1. the forced loan Greece gave to Germany in WW2,
2. the antiquities that got stolen by the thousands in the same period by the Germans.
On 1: As ridiculus as it may sound, Greece was forced to give *a loan* to Germany, something which took place on March 13th 1941. Germany even paid the first tranches before the end of ww2. This loan is being recognized officially as it is being determined by the International Laws for trade etc, it is not erased as it was a bilateral financial agreement between two countries *(as provided in the terms of the contract),* it thus does not aplly to any kind of reparations Greece demands from Germany, it is Germany's contractual obligation which *apply to all International Laws,* and it has been estimated in 1964 by the Germans that the capital excluding the interest was 200.000.000 Gold German Marks. If we include a +80 years of interest, the amount of money Germany *owes (OWES!!)* to Greece skyrockets.
Yet, they refuse to pay back this loan as they should, as all International Laws determines.
This would be an interesting video should you decide to make it.
On 2: not much to say on this other than that Germany did returned a signifcant amount of important antiquities that got stolen during ww2, but the German state *never launched* an investigation about the thousands and thousands of antiquities that were stolen by German soldiers and ended up in either their homes or more often they got lost in the labyrinth of the black markets and now they are being displayed in Museums globally.
On March 30, 2013, Ronald Obermeier, an engineer, went to the post office in the small German town where he lives, carrying a package that, after much thought, he had decided to part from. The night before he had packed its contents with great care: 73 ancient objects dating from the Hellenistic period to the 4th century AD: statuettes, lamps, glass vessels and coins. The recipient of the parcel was the Archaeological Museum of Kos, Greece, where Obermeier's father had lived as a German naval war correspondent seven decades earlier, in 1942, when the Germans occupied the island.
Just to get an idea...
Again, thank you,
Regards
In addition to what was stolen.German leaders encouraged soldiers to send food and other goods home from the countries where they were stationed. German soldiers’ pay was increased and limits on how much they could ship or transport home to their families in Germany were abolished. In order to afford the pay raises, the *Germans forced the occupied countries to pay for the cost of the German occupation, a cost that Germany alone would determine. This led to massive shipments of foreign goods from soldiers to their families in Germany*
Thanks for your elaborate reply.
Untill the end of 20th century Greece was "suffering" from the "German occupation syndrome" . Children were fed more than normal , bringing them on the verge of obecity and the elder were eating like crazy, saying that they get revenge from the days of hunger ... Now it seems funny but still it shows how traumatic this famine had been for them. The children in the streets of Athens looked no better than kids of concentration camps....
Very sad. Thanks for sharing this.
Your video made me remember stories my late parents used to tell me of families leaving Athens and moving to the country during the occupation. Both of my parents' families were farmers and there were times that 5 or more families of distant relatives and their friends were hosted and lived with them, sharing food during those dark days. Food was not much but they survived. But these were the "lucky" ones that managed to leave Athens. The unlucky ones that had no other place to go or decided to stay in Athens or even couldn't leave the city suffered a lot as your very well documented video shows!
Good job!
Many thanks for your reply.
Another major contribution to humanity by the cousins, English and German... My country lost 10 percent of its population during the German nazi/italian/bulgarian occupation, while other " Great fighting forces " Against nazism, like the French, spent their wartime " Efforts " being the grand resort for nazi army rotation and on leave troops.
Greece suffered indeed greatly during WW2.
Well presented if an appalling subject but it's important to remember, wars have consequences well beyond the battlefield and the soldiers.
Indeed, thanks for sharing.
Consequences on civilians that muchmore could be avoided are crimes of war. Just to make it clear.
The analysis and your narration were excellent and accurate as ever.Still I have to point out that some of the videos shown, depict Yugoslavian soldiers and civilians and not Greeks.
Thanks and shoot! I was in doubt. See, it was a German news reel about April 1941. I stand corrected.
good job bro
Thanks!
Great video as always. Also during the famine athens and pireus had also a cholera crisis. Turkey did not want to send us wheat until 1944 being the bad neutral. Also for starvation the church under archibishop damaskinos and general katsimitros played a role in order to support the famine greeks. Finally one of my fathers uncles and one my fathers brothers died due to the famine
Thanks for your reply.
Stefan, it’s always the smallest details that will have the greatest impact. Thank you for sharing you’re the best !!!
Cheers Jesse!
Extremely sad story, just one more example of terrible civilian suffering during armed conflicts. In this case due to a combination of reasons. Thanks Stefan!
Thanks for watching.
Another excellent video, thanks Stefan !
Many thanks!
Thank you for making a video about this very overlooked topic.
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Thanks for covering this topic. I hope more people see your video.
Thanks, feel free to share.
Another Great video
Thanks John.
Informative video about a topic I really didn't know much about. Thanks and take it ding dong easy in this heat.
Great!
Thank you for presenting things as they were..truthfully.
Thanks for watching.
Really intersting
Thanks for the Video, I have learned something new today
Thanks for watching sir!
An other thing that should be mentioned is that after the famine of 41-42 the greek resistance organised a plan of securing the crops of wheat and corn the next two years with fierce battles , especially in the area of Thessalia , and thus the new famines were avoided.
Thanks for sharing this additional information.
War always brings famine. Very informative presentation Stefan!❤️🇨🇦
Thanks for watching.
War disrupts the supply chain and it can surely cause undernourishment to a large part of the population. *The deliberate* discontinuation of the food supply chain during a war, which *inevitably* causes the mass death by *starvation* of hundreds of thousands of civilians, it is a *crime of war,* and not an effect/byproduct of the war.
TIK History also makes an EXCELLENT video on this very topic. Thank You for also bringing this TRAGEDY to light.
Indeed.
I absolutely love "The Hustle"!
Thanks for watching Sheri!
I think this shows how hard it is to hit an inhuman gouvernment like the Nazis with sanctions.
Always the weekest suffer. The Nazis didnt care.
I was as a german years ago in greece. People were so Kind to me. And I must say I apologize for what my country did. How inhuman could someone be?
Thanks for your reply.
Governments are always looking to pass the responsibility of mismanagement as readily as people are willing to benefit from victimizing a scapegoat. Had the treaty of Versailles not been so devastating to Germany the Nazi movement may not have been so successful. The question for the people was simple. Continue to be blamed and punished for many years or restore pride in nationalism, retaliate for oppressive policies inflicted on the people for actions of they're previous government, and take back what they feel is being stolen from them and handed over to the jews and others. All you need to do is turn a blind eye and follow the ones restoring pride and creating jobs. I'm not exusing the nazis, I'm saying the allies helped them appear more palatable than most Germans current situation.
The one thing that Germany did right was educate the following generations of the atrocities. Japan version of ww2 eduacton in school goes something like: for one day l, for some reason unknown to us the Americans started dropping bombs on us.
Thank you man!!
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Late reaction but another great video about a topic that not many people know about!
Many thanks.
Hey history hustle!!
Could you maybe make a video about the island Milos Greece in ww2??
Sorry, no.
The wagon of municipality collected every day the dead people
Until today in Greece we have an expression , if someone is poor of whithout relatives saying :
When he die , they will he take him with the wagon of municipality
The prefecture of Attica lost 40% of the forests during ΚΑΤΟΧΗ from the people who tried to warm up or cooked
A turkish ship transeferred food in Greece the Kurtuluz
Thanks for sharing this.
Just a heads up - I watch your videos very frequently but I realized I haven’t had one suggested by UA-cam for a month or more
Thanks for sharing. The algoritm is working in strange ways..
It goes to show how much war really sucks. War brings its own set of cruelties to nations that it touches. Who suffers the most? The innocent civilians suffer, that's who!
Indeed.
Thank you for spreading to the world this horrible history, most of us have heard from parents or grandparents. Greece lost more than 10% of its prewar population during the Axis occupation and almost half of them was during this terrible winter of 1942.
Thanks for your reply.
My dad's siblings all passed away before the age of 12 after the war, it was bad.
Sad to read. May they rest in peace.
It wasn't until recently until I learned of history not taught in school. Such as the holodomor and the resulting cannibalism, unit 731, The Vichy French Nazi government and many other things that internet historians brought to the light, where my school textbooks omitted such entries. Thanks for bringing unpopular historical events to light as many more of us would still be in the dark without those like you who take the time to unbiasedly enlighten those who are willing to seek the truth rather than the accepted.
Thanks for watching.
That was a great video. Thanks.
The answer to your question is pretty obvious I guess. It was everyone's fault that was involved.
The Nazis were extremely cruel and during the whole occupation showed many times their unhumanity, all over Greece. But what about the British who they knew about them and they knew what they did. They decided to act like this. What could we say about the British?
Thanks for sharing your insights.
I totally agree with you. The germans looted my grandmother s house. They took everything. Food, blankets, the cutlery, glassware, furniture and livestock. They were the enemy and you expect atrocities and cruelty on their part. But the allies who are supposed to be by your side caused devastation as well. The greatest bombing of Greece in 2nd World War ironically was not done by the Axis but by the Allies. In January 11, 1944, Piraeus, the largest port in the country and seaport of Athens, was heavily bombed by Allied air force by mistake, in the morning /noon by Americans and at night by the British, resulting in severe casualties. and the death of hundreds of its innocent inhabitants. The result of all these terrible catastrophes is that Piraeus has the unfortunate privilege of being the Greek city that during World War II suffered more than any other in the country, both in material damage and, most importantly, in human losses.
@@mariavarvatsoulis8999 I didn't know that. Thanks for this important information.
I have read some books about the period of National Resistance, but I don't remember any of them referring to this incident.
In my opinion it couldn't be such a large bombing by mistake.
I have recently know by Spartacus Olsson about The Iranian famine of 1942-1943. I am glad my german 🇩🇪 ancestors here in south Brazil never suffered this plague in this dark times.
"The Iranian famine of 1942-1943 refers to a period of major starvation that took place in Iran, which was under the rule of the Pahlavi dynasty. Iran at the time was occupied by the United Kingdom and Soviet Union despite being a neutral country in the Second World War." Wikipedia.
Obrigado por mais este vídeo, Stefan! 🇧🇷
Thanks for replying.
Wish you included the story of the turkish aid ship "kurtuluş".
Please explain. Did not read about this topic.
always weird to "like" a video when such tough topic. civilians always suffer most in wars then and now as we see.
I understand.
Indeed, we had our own hongerwinter, my family lived through it. 😞
Harsh times..
Please tell us about victory of Adwa
Not anytime soon.
Wow! Stefan is tall! That is so Dutch!!!
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Also I would like to mention that there was a less terrible famine in 1917 in Athens a more unknown one that happened again beacuse of the British who were against Constantines pro German goverment. So basically it was the British fault
Ah yes, soon more on Greece in WW1.
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I am a student of history also , the generations of this modern world have no idea that they live in the richest most prosperous time in the history of the world. They also do not realize that they eat better far healthier than most Kings did just 200 years ago. I have a different perspective on history than most , in 1969 I sat in my grandparents living room and watched the first American astronaut land on the Moon in Apallo 11 with my Great Grandmother. She was 96 years old and her mind was as sharp as any 20 year old , Think about it ! she was born in 1874 ! no electric, no inside water, it was carried from a well , no inside toilets and no trains within 50 miles of where she grew up and now she was watching Man land on the Moon . Wow ! did she give us some history lessons , she was born in rural Winchester Virginia and her parents had an apple orchard planted by her grandparents who were Pioneers in the mid 1700's . She had 15 children , one child was killed in WW1 in France and grandchildren die in WW2. While watching the moon landing and talking about the great wonders of technology she turned to us children and said something very profound , she said " Well you should expect to see the same advancement of life and science in your lives " . I feel very fortunate to have known and loved her and to learn from her, she lived to be 104 years old.
Incredible. Thanks for sharing this.
My parents tell me that those who had fields were able to keep some food and survive. Those who had no fields...Entire families died..no food was to be had..oil and grains and other foods were confiscated. And shipped to Germany and Italy..my mother's father worked forced labour..for a handful of grain. On his way home he would collect greens many times in grave yards. My mom and her sisters collected certain kind of seaweed..anything that could be eaten was. Greece land of the olive .had no oil was all confiscated. But.. resistance never wavered..almost everyone was involved in some way..
Thanks for sharing this. Tragic period in Greek history.
My father used to talk about this, he was from Athens
Thanks for sharing.
6:30 I fail to see the dilemma.
Since the German troops were ordered to plunder/take foodstuff wherever they found them, does it matter if they had a plan to commit genocide?
I will forcefully take 90% of your blood then my defense would be, "I just needed some blood Your Honor, I didn't wish for that person to perish".
Its more because of a scientific approach to history. How to name it. Of course for the victims it was no difference: death is death.
Anything on the Marshall Plan?
Not yet.
A great video as always. I seems threee are 2 types of famine, one a more deliberate form, and the other a more “well we dont really care” form. Both are evil in their own way and both are cruel🤬🤬🤬🤬
Indeed.
Mom was living in the loft of their own house at the time since the Germans had requisitioned the rest. She told me about seeing a starving child her age in the street with a bloated stomach from her window and not being allowed to go help. Btw Germany has never paid reparations…
Sad to read, thanks for sharing.
Never again
Indeed.
If I had been a German who had lived through the food shortages of the Great War I might not be sympathetic to the countries who had been part of the Entente regarding food .
I can imagine. Not sure if it was the case here. For sure the food shortages of WW1 weren't forgotten by the Germans.
@@HistoryHustle just giving some context to the Goering quote.
@@johnkilmartin5101 Well fat boy certainly never missed a meal.
The British was the reason for the famine with the block aid..
Please explain and see the video if you haven't.
Plenty of blame to go around.
Indeed.
did the famine die down when konstantinos logothetopolous came to power?
Believe already died down before.
Was there any famine during logothetopolous?
Germans were more guilty than Italians or British, of course.
Everybody blames everybody for blocking food supplies and for a starvation. I feel, the same can occur in the winter of 2022-2023 because of the current political situation... But they'll solve it, of course.
I understand. Lets hope we will be alright this winter.
My mother still cusses if you mention Churchill
You would quickly tend to blame the English blockade. But of course the Axis powers are the real culprit. The bombing of German cities was necessary or not? Sinking the ferry in Norway with civilian casualties to prevent heavy water exports? In wars, decisions are made that are later seen as questionable.
Thanks for your insights.
The Brits were equally to be blamed
Please explain.
Doing God's work.
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@@HistoryHustle Oh man, I just realized how badly-worded my comment is. This was directed towards you and your channel.
My thoughts are that the germans executed greeks for even forraging for their own food or fishing. So even to live by simple free means was punished. The Germans were solely responsible.
I understand.
@@HistoryHustle my family survived the massacre of kleisoura (northern greece). The stories i have been told are horrific, there is some footage/pictures that exist but i do not have any, only stories. The main targets since the men were mainly enlisted in the resistance movements were children, women and the elderly. My family's home was used as an execution ground and later taken over by an SS officer. As much as other forces were involved, they were under the command of the Germans who had absolutely no regard for Greek lives. They looked down on them as lesser beings and for that, those involved will never be forgiven. This is just 1 massacre of hundreds, if not thousands that took place across Greece. The Germans also destroyed over 80% of the infrastructure of the country, they punished the Greeks for fighting for their freedom and holding up valuable resources needed on the Eastern front. The massacre of Distomo is probably one of the better known and covered atrocities, there is a video on youtube, i think made as a documentary where locals are interviewed and give first hand accounts of some of the horrors they witnessed. It is utterly heart breaking and does not differ from the stories my Giagia (Grandmother) used to tell me about her experiences as a young girl on the day she ran for her life.
The nazis were deplorable monsters. I feel sorry for the generation of Germans who grew up to learn that their fathers carried out such acts. May it be left in History and never repeated.
All of this you said has been proved that more of them are not true the hunger wasn't that bad i am greek and i know brits banned Greece from food also they bombed pireus with more than 900 bombs so allies wasn't that allies they killed us they starved us
So solely because your Greek you know better? Think the argument should come from books which I have read (see sources below the video). Which books did you read?
@@HistoryHustle your sourches clearly wasnt there i have many relatives that was living in that era and they have photographic and videographic material and yes cause i am greek and live in greece i know my history better than a foreigner that have internet proof only i am wishing you a good day
Didn't even mention the Bengal famine, can't say I'm surprised.
Just mentioned a few in Europe. It's not the scope of the video. Look at the title.
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Sad times.
Italy was involved i say this too all Greeks out there.
Yes. Although the Italians did try to help more than the Germans.
@@HistoryHustle The Fascist Italians murdered 11 000 greeks who were civilians. I add this numbers.
Why don't you talk about the Macedonians who were displaced from the north of today's Greece (a region they received with the Bucharest peace agreement) this region? Why is no one talking about how they were expelled and assimilated? 🇲🇰🇲🇰
Because the video is about the Greek famine, that's why.
They had exactly the same treatment with their greek communist partizans comrades after they lost the civil war. It was a political and not racist situation. I don't say that they deserved it , but the same thing happened to all the partizans of the defeated "democratic" army. So don't make use of this fact to promote the agenda of VMRO.
2:50. "Black market", also known as "agorism", from greek word "Agora" (αγορά). The heaven for the ancaps. Agorism works very well everywhere till today. The free trade is the most powerful defense against any coercitive state back there and now. 🏴☠By the way, you could start accepting Bitcoins to defend yourself from the Euro printing machine. I think TIKhistory would approve.
Um abraço e obrigado! 🇧🇷
Well i don't know how familiar you are with that period of time
But the black market was anything from " free" and often the people behind it worked for the occupation forces..if you didn't had the right connections you cloud easily end up hanging from a lap pole... they were so pro nazi that when they allies counterattacked in north African their motto was " hold on Rommel!!"
Also much of the money from the black market ended up founding the security battalions - the local ss police units
" Old oil merchant" is even today a slur for corrupted businessmen
Since many of those people post ww2 managed to take control of the economy in monopoly like arrangements, since they had huge political influence they managed to secure what is was known as " sea loans" becoming shipping tycoons overnight
Their families even today have extreme political influence since they own TV stations, news papers, even football teams
As for how well it worked
When your monthly wage is 100 billion drachmas and a loaf of bread cost 50 billion the economy is broken beyond repair
It's not a coincidence that after the war the government destroyed all those bills in order to restart the economy nor that they agreed for the drachma to have a fixed price towards US dollar
Interesting to read.
The fault of the British. As usual.
I wouldnt say so.
@@HistoryHustle My father fought in that war, including in Koritsa Albanian mountains 1938-1941. That's what he told me...