20th Century Time Machine | Athens Greece Historic Footage: 50,000 German Soldiers Surrender in 1944 @20thCenturyTimeMachine | Uploaded March 2017 | Updated October 2024, 10 hours ago.
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This rare silent footage documents the surrender of 50,000 German soldiers in Athens. In 1944, the Germans began evacuating Greece and the British agents in Greece negotiated a ceasefire (the Plaka agreement). This rare silent footage documents the surrender of 50,000 German soldiers in Athens.

German forces began withdrawing from the Greek mainland in late 1944 as Soviet forces advancing into South-Eastern Europe from the Ukraine threatened to cut them off. British forces then landed in October 1944, liberating Athens by 14 October 1944. Greece annexed the Dodecanese Islands from Italy in 1947.


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