Dimitrios Makris (politician)

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Dimitrios "Takos" Makris (

Constantine Karamanlis
.

Life

He was born in

Athens University, he worked as a lawyer in Thessaloniki
.

He served as a Member of Parliament representing

Interior Minister
from 1956 to 1961, and as Minister for the Presidency of the Government from 1961 to 1963.

In 1960 he was accused of being a Nazi collaborator during World War II (the so-called "Merten affair"), which he denied, but from that point onward he was constantly under attack by the press.

He died in London in 1981, aged 71.

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