-
movements in ****-occupied Europe, with partisans, men and
women known as
andartes and
andartisses (Gr****: αντάρτες, αντάρτισσες, romanized: antártes, antártises...
- as a way to
frighten the Gr****s into not
supporting the
andartes (guerrillas). The main
andarte force that
fought the
Germans during the war was the ELAS...
- from the
prewar reserves were
commanding ELAS
andarte bands.
About 50% of the men who
served as ELAS
andartes were
veterans of the
Albanian campaign of 1940–41...
- the
Special Operations Executive (SOE), in co-operation with the Gr****
andartes,
mounted Operation Animals, a
series of
attacks on rail and road networks...
-
destruction of a
single bridge by the
andartes caused major supply problems for the
German forces. The best
known andarte operation of the war,
namely the...
-
Kreipe by
Patrick Leigh Fermor and Bill
Stanley Moss
working with
Cretan andartes. Knight's
Cross of the Iron
Cross on 13
August 1941 as
Oberst and commander...
- hypochondriac,
Zervas was
reluctant to take up the
arduous life of an
andarte (guerrilla),
preferring to stay in Athens. The SOE had a low
opinion of...
- were
getting themselves into by
fleeing to the countryside.
Unlike the
andartes, who were
resisting Axis rule in
Greece and
preferred a
democratic decision-making...
-
bought out,
thirty years after he
fought alongside the
local resistance (
andartes)
during the
Second World War. There, he
encounters the
ghosts of his past...
-
aftermath of
Operation Achse, Löhr
launched a
sustained drive to wipe out the
andartes in Greece,
especially ELAS (Ellinikós Laïkós Apeleftherotikós Stratós-Gr****...
