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Name: German Withdrawal from Greece (World War II)

Type: Event

Start: 1944 AD

End: 1945 AD

Parent: World War II (Balkan Theatre)

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The evacuation of Greece by German troops during World War II.

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  • October 1944: On 23 August 1944, at a meeting at his headquarters, Adolf Hitler told Field Marshal Maximilian von Weichs, the commander of the German forces in the Balkans, that with the Romanian oil fields lost, there was now no more point in occupying Greece and he should begin preparations for a withdrawal from Greece at once. The German troops evacuated Athens on 12 October 1944.
  • November 1944: German forces withdraw from mainland Greece.
  • June 1945: Isolated Axis garrisons remained in Crete, the Dodecanese and various other Aegean islands until the end of the war in May 1945.

    • Selected Sources

  • Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p.316

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