Michalis Papazoglou

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Michalis Papazoglou was the man who inspired the TREFOIL as the emblem of Panathinaikos. He was also a great figure in the National Resistance. He joined the resistance group of George Ivanof (athlete in the team of Iraklis-Thessaloniki). The group's mission was to give information to the English and to organize sabotages. With some external help from the naval base the group succeeded to destroy three German airplanes and to sink three small war ships. He was arrested on the 12th of October 1942 and was transferred to the Averof prison, where he pretended he was psychopath. The Germans then sent him to the Aiginition hospital for further testing. While he was there the founder of PAO, George Kalafatis, and the founder of the PAO basketball team, P. Giannatos, organized a successful plan to kidnap and free him.