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Dissertation Information for Garbriella Etmektsoglou-Koehn

NAME:
- Garbriella Etmektsoglou-Koehn

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- Emory University (USA) (1995)

ADVISORS:
- Kermit E. McKenzie

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Douglas A. Unfug
- Jan T. Gross

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: Axis exploitation of wartime Greece, 1941-1943

Abstract: The aim of this thesis is to examine the economic aspects of Axis rule over wartime Greece, study the formation and implementation of different exploitation policies, and evaluate their effects on Greek life and the German-Italian relationship itself.

By way of historical background, chapter one investigates the importance of economic issues in the prewar relationship of Germany and Italy to Greece, and defines Axis competing claims and objectives in this part of Southeastern Europe. The reasons for their military involvement in Greece are also explained here. Chapter two covers events leading to an armistice agreement between the belligerent armies, the division of Greece into occupied zones, and the formation of a Greek collaboration regime. Chapter three describes the structure of the military and civilian Axis administrations formed after the country's surrender in April 1941. The role played by the three collaboration governments is assessed in chapter four, which also briefly examines the impact of Greece's financial crisis on the country's political and social life. Chapter five discusses the exploitation of Greece's raw material and mineral wealth, and of its industrial capacity; the employment of free and forced labor; and the confiscation of Jewish property. Chapter six deals with requisitions of agricultural products and with the administration of food distribution. Axis measures taken prior to and after the introduction of an IRC administered relief program following the famine of winter 1941/42, are also analysed. Finally, chapter seven describes the financial chaos caused by the 'astronomical' sums Greece had to provide as occupation costs. German-Italian disputes over a reduction of Wehrmacht occupation expenses, and the measures taken to check the complete collapse of the Greek currency are also considered in this chapter.

This thesis attempts to show that the entire period of Axis rule was characterized by German efforts to impose their wishes throughout Greece, even in the Italian occupation zone. Specific or general economic policies were again and again formulated, revised, and repealed, with the ultimate goal of serving Germany's interests, especially military, while cheating its partner. Further, Nazi prewar Neuordnung plans were replaced by short-term strategies aiming at the maximum exploitation of Greece's resources, without consideration for their catastrophic effects on the country's economy.

MPACT Scores for Garbriella Etmektsoglou-Koehn

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calculated 2008-04-07 11:25:40

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