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Informationen zum Autor Panteleymon Anastasakis Klappentext This study examines the response of the Greek clergy to the experience of enemy occupation during World War II. In particular, it evaluates how these men reacted to Axis brutality, the nationwide famine, the Holocaust, and the growth of national resistance movements during the period. Zusammenfassung This study examines the response of the Greek clergy to the experience of enemy occupation during World War II. In particular! it evaluates how these men reacted to Axis brutality! the nationwide famine! the Holocaust! and the growth of national resistance movements during the period. Acknowledgements List of Foreign Terms Introduction Chapter I: Historical Background: Church-State Relations from the Ottoman Period to the Eve of World War II (1453-1939) Chapter II: The Making of an Ethnarch: A Biographical Sketch of Archbishop Damaskinos (1891-1941) Chapter III: A Prelude of Events to Come: The Expansion of the Role of the Hierarchy in the Final Days of Freedom (April-May 1941) Chapter IV: Unattainably High: Expectations of the Church of Greece during the Axis Occupation Chapter V: The Fruits of Their Labor: Shielding the Population from Axis Excesses Chapter VI: Combating Famine and Destitution (1941-1944) Chapter VII: The Path of Passive Resistance and Protest: The Response of the Church of Greece to Bulgarian Occupation Policies and the Holocaust Chapter VIII: In the Spirit of Papaflessas: The Relationship between EAM and the Clergy during the Axis Occupation Epilogue Bibliography
