National Solidarity (Greece)
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National Solidarity (Greek: Εθνική Αλληλεγγύη, abbreviated E.A.) was the social welfare organization of the EAM resistance movement in occupied Greece during World War II.
Its foundation was decided upon by Pantelis Karagitsis, Lefteris Apostolou and Aristotelis Bouras, escapees from the internal exile imposed by the pre-war Metaxas Regime. Thus, on 28 May 1941, barely a month into the Occupation, the organization was founded in a park behind the Soteria hospital. As such, it has the distinction of being the first nation-wide resistance group to be established.[1] Its founding members were: Kleon Papaloizos, who was also elected secretary, Vasileios Markezinis, Dionysia Papadomichelaki, Nikos Dresios, Georgios Vasilopoulos and Spyros Antypas.
The organization participated as a founding party in the creation of the National Liberation Front (EAM) in September 1941 and henceforth functioned as its welfare arm.[1]
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- (Greek) Hagen Fleischer (1995). Crown and Swastika - Greece of the Occupation and the Resistance, Vol. 2. Athens: Papazissis Ed.. ISBN 960-02-1079-9.
- (Greek) "Οι αντιστασιακές οργανώσεις φύτρωναν σαν μανιτάρια" article in the Eleftherotypia newspaper, 8.4.2006
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