Archbishop Damaskinos has opposed the German occupation and urged the concealment of Jews to save them from the Nazis.

However, virtually the entire Jewish population is deported in 1943 to death camps in Germany.

A devastatingly high rate of inflation adds to the miseries and humiliations of everyday life.

Although the Greek communists had been a marginal force during the interwar period, EAM-ELAS becomes the largest resistance organization and the most powerful guerrilla band in Greece.

It also establishes an effective administrative apparatus, through which it rules liberated areas.