Germanos Dimakos
Germanos Dimakos (
nom de guerre, Papa-Anypomonos (Παπα-Ανυπόμονος, "Father
Impatient").
He was born Georgios Dimakos in 1912, in the village of Agrydaki in
Koukouvista he met Aris Velouchiotis
, the chief captain of ELAS, EAM's guerrilla wing. Henceforth Dimakos became a close associate of Velouchiotis, following him in his tours around Greece. His bravery and zeal earned him the sobriquet Papa-Anypomonos from Velouchiotis himself.
Following the
Regime of the Colonels also persecuted him as a communist sympathizer, and sent him before the Synodical Court in 1968, where he was acquitted. Only during the last years of his life was his role in the Resistance acknowledged and honoured by the Church of Greece. He was interviewed for the 1986 British documentary Greece: The Hidden War. In 2010 the new park of Vytina
was named after him.
Sources
- Εφυγε ο παπα-Ανυπόμονος του αντάρτικου. Eleftherotypia (in Greek). 10 June 2004. Archived from the original on 1 December 2011. Retrieved 8 May 2011.
- «Εφυγε» ο παπα - Ανυπόμονος (in Greek). Rizospastis. 10 June 2004. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 8 May 2011.
- "Αποκαλυπτήρια ανδριάντα "Κόλλια του Βυτινιώτη" & Εγκαίνια πλατείας "Παπα-Ανυπόμονου"". Vytina Municipality. 2010. Archived from the original on 14 March 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2011.