20th Century Greek Tragedy
The dark stories we wish were myths…
Price: $29.99 / £24.99
Starting point: Monument to the Unknown Soldier, Athens
Duration: 2 - 3 hours
All countries bear the scars of the previous century; but the Greek experience was really quite unique: a sorry stream of wars, betrayals by its allies and a doom loop of both economic and social crises - but it’s also a story of unbroken resilience in the face of adversity.
Here’s a glimpse of what we'll (un)cover:
1912 - 1922: The murder of one million civilians in the Greco-Turkish War caps off a decade of near continuous conflict - including the First World War
The Holocaust: 91% of Greek Jews were murdered - the highest proportion in Europe. Why was Greece’s loss so extreme?
How Greece’s largest resistance group of the Second World War was betrayed by the British - and why Churchill sided with Greek Nazi collaborators
The student uprising which ended with a tank crashing onto campus. Democracy was finally restored a year later, in 1974
Antiparochi: those stubby concrete apartment blocks which sprawl up the valley have a name - and share a curious story
