Georgios Poulos
Georgios Poulos (Greek: Γεώργιος Πούλος; 1889, Romania – 11 June 1949) was a Greek Army colonel and Nazi collaborator during the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II.
He was born in 1889 in Romania, hailing from
1935 Greek coup d'état attempt
as a lieutenant colonel, leaving the army after its failure.
A longtime
monarchist and anti-communist. In 1943, he organised and led the Poulos Verband, the most feared collaborationist death squad in occupied-Greece. During 1944, his forces were reinforced by the Jagdkommando Schubert, a paramilitary unit raised in Crete by the notorious Friedrich Schubert
.
Poulos participated in
ELAS, as Giannitsa was considered an important resistance centre. However, Poulos and his men killed in an indiscriminate fashion and it is probable that most of the victims had minimal involvement with the Resistance. In March 1945, Poulos and his unit were transferred to Kitzbühel, Austria. They remained there until the end of the war and were captured by the US 7th Army
, who later surrendered them to Greece.
Colonel Poulos was convicted of treason and executed in Athens in June 1949.
See also
References
- ^ Καλλιανιώτης, Αθανάσιος (2007). Οι πρόσφυγες στη Δυτική Μακεδονία (1941-1946). (Translate: The refugees in Western Macedonia)Thessaloniki: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Further reading
- Mark Mazower, Inside Hitler's Greece. The Experience of Occupation, 1941–44,(Greek translation), Athens: Αλεξάνδρεια, 1994(1993), pp. 365–9.
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