National Union of Greece
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National Union of Greece Εθνική Ένωσις Ελλάδος | |
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| Founder | Georgios Kosmidis |
| Founded | 1927 |
| Dissolved | 1944 |
| Ideology | Nazism Greek nationalism Fascism Antisemitism Anti-communism Collaborationism |
| Political position | Far-right |
| Religion | Greek Orthodox |
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The National Union of Greece (Greek: Εθνική Ένωσις Ελλάδος, Ethniki Enosis Ellados or EEE) was a far-right political party established in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1927.
Registered as a mutual aid society, the EEE was founded by Asia Minor refugee businesspeople. According to the organisation's constitution, only Christians could join. Its members were in political and, especially, commercial antagonism with Thessaloniki's substantial Jewish population.
It was eventually led by Georgios Kosmidis (Γιώργος Κοσμίδης), a banking clerk. Estimates put the party's strength at 7,000 members in 1932; by 1933, it had 3,000 of its members march to Athens, in apparent imitation of Benito Mussolini's 1922 March on Rome.[1] However, it polled poorly in the 1934 city elections in Thessaloniki, and in 1935, the party dissolved as a result of political in-fighting.
Owing to its paramilitary uniforms and organisation, the party was commonly referred to as "The Three Epsilons" (τα Τρία Εψιλον) or "The Steelhelmets" (οι Χαλυβδόκρανοι), in allusion to the German paramilitary Der Stahlhelm.
References[edit]
- ^ Victor Roudometof (2002). Collective Memory, National Identity, and Ethnic Conflict. Praeger/Greenwood. p. 115. ISBN 0-275-97648-3.
External links[edit]
- History of the EEE (in Greek)
Further reading[edit]
- Mark Mazower, Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950, London: HarperCollins, 2004. ISBN 0-00-712023-0
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Categories:
- Defunct nationalist parties in Greece
- Antisemitism in Greece
- Fascism in Greece
- Greek collaborators with Nazi Germany
- Greek Macedonia in World War II
- Politics of Thessaloniki
- Modern history of Thessaloniki
- 1920s in Greece
- 1930s in Greece
- 1940s in Greek politics
- Political parties established in 1927
- Political parties disestablished in 1944
- 1927 establishments in Greece
- 1944 disestablishments in Greece
- Nazi parties
- German occupation of Thessaloniki
- Eastern Orthodox political parties