Georgios Bakos
Georgios Bakos | |
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Γεώργιος Μπάκος | |
Minister of National Defense of Greece | |
| In office 30 April 1941 – 7 April 1943 | |
| Prime Minister | Georgios Tsolakoglou Konstantinos Logothetopoulos |
| Preceded by | Theodoras Panagakos |
| Succeeded by | Ioannis Rallis |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Georgios Bakos c. 1892 Athens, Kingdom of Greece |
| Died | 6 January 1945 (aged 52) |
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| Branch/service |  Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)
World War II
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Georgios Bakos (Greek: Γεώργιος Μπάκος, 1892–1945) was a Hellenic Army officer.
Born in
Greco-Italian War
of 1940–41.
After the
ESPO and tried, without success, to raise a Greek volunteer unit to fight along the German Wehrmacht in the Eastern Front.[3]
After the country's liberation, he was arrested and placed in Averof prison in Athens waiting trial. During the EAM-ELAS guerrillas under officer Stavros Mavrothalassitis attacked the prison. Bakos was taken prisoner and after a court-martial was executed as a traitor on 6 January 1945.
References
- ^ Μεγάλη Στρατιωτική και Ναυτική Εγκυκλοπαιδεία, Αθήναι 1929, τόμος Δ΄, σελ. 665.
- ^ ΚΥΒΕΡΝΗΣΕΙΣ (Κατά την διάρκειαν της Εχθρικής Κατοχής της Χώρας) - Από 30.4.1941 έως 10.10.1944 (in Greek). General Secretariat of the Government. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
- ISBN 978-1317898528.
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