Germanos Dimakos

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Papa-Anypomonos in the mountains with ELAS. Well-known photo taken by Spyros Meletzis

Germanos Dimakos (

nom de guerre, Papa-Anypomonos (Παπα-Ανυπόμονος, "Father
Impatient").

He was born Georgios Dimakos in 1912, in the village of Agrydaki in

, 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.

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