Brief synopsis by Dr Sheila Lecoeur:
‘This seminar will trace the various stages of British intervention in Greece during World War 2, particularly with regard to SOE help to partisans in the resistance against Axis occupying forces, and British policy during the repression of communist actions in Athens in 1944-5. I will be showing some original IWM war footage of these dramatic events. The wider context is the post-war division of Europe into Western and Russian zones following Churchill’s ‘percentages agreement’ with Stalin.’