Nazis in Greece

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1556 WL 1360
Held at	: Wiener Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/ ›
Full title	: Nazis in Greece
Date(s)	: 1940s-1990s
Level of description	: collection
Extent	: 15 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Mazower | Mark | b 1958 | historian

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Axis occupation of Greece during World War Two began Apr 1941 following the German and Italian invasion of Greece, together with Bulgarian forces. It lasted until the German withdrawal from the mainland, Oct 1944. In some cases however, such as in Crete and other islands, German garrisons remained in control until May-Jun 1945.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Copies of primary and secondary sources from archives in USA, Germany, Greece and Great Britain on the Nazi occupation of Greece and the persecution of Greece's Jewish population, used by Mark Mazower for his book, Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-1944, (Yale University Press, 1993). Mark Mazower provides a commentary on the sources and their value in the chapter 'Notes on Sources'.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English, German, French, Italian, Greek

System of arrangement:

Unsorted

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Contact archives of origin.

Finding aids:

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Mark Mazower

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Mazower, Mark, Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-1944, (Yale University Press, 1993).

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
February 2008