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	Up the Line Review
		While sex with up the line persons is frowned upon but not necessarily policed, the men must be very careful not to impregnate women they've entered.
		Metaxas is also a minor time criminal, although the patrol leaves him alone because of the valuable service he is doing.
		Metaxas is also making a detailed genealogy of his line but for a different reason than Capistrano.
	www.goldkeys.com /ScienceFiction/reviews/0345325850.html (1642 words)

	Articles - Metaxas Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Metaxas Line was a chain of fortifications constructed along the line of the Graeco-Bulgarian border, designed to protect Greece in case of a Bulgarian invasion during World War II.
		The Metaxas Line fortifications consist of 22 independent clusters, the largest of which is the Roupel Fortress as it covers 6.1 out of the 155 km of the full line and had been constructed at a height of 322 m.
		Like the Maginot Line on the Franco-German border, the Metaxas Line was outflanked by German forces -specifically when the Germans invaded Greece in April 1941 through Yugoslavia.
	www.mainearth.com /articles/Metaxas_Line (341 words)

	World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Post–World War II Europe was partitioned into Western and Soviet spheres of influence, the former undergoing economic reconstruction under the Marshall Plan and the latter becoming satellite states of the Soviet Union.
		This partition was, however, informal; rather than coming to terms about the spheres of influence, the relationship between the victors steadily deteriorated, and the military lines of demarcation finally became the de facto country boundaries.
		Allied forces advanced north but were stalled for the winter at the Gustav Line, until they broke through in the Battle of Monte Cassino.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_War_Two (8913 words)

	The forgotten "Metaxas Line" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The political establishment is attempting to toss the name of the architect of the epoch of 1940-41, I. Metaxas, into oblivion.
		Democracy claims breadth of mind and not close-minded individuals that are attempting to do with the name of Metaxas what the Ancients did with the name of Herostratus.
		This is especially true in the county districts where these names have been removed from the town squares and streets and been replaced by the "democratic" names of Gennimata, of Merkouri, and of...
	www.e-grammes.gr /2002/04/roupel_en.htm (346 words)

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		The Hindenburg Line resisted all Allied assaults in 1917, including a vast British mining operation under the Messines Ridge in Belgium that literally blew up the ridge, inflicting 17,000 casualties at one blow; the advance failed to carry beyond the ridge.
		The value of their concept remains undetermined; the line was not attacked until late 1944, after the German armies had incurred severe defeats and lacked adequate reserves.
		The line consisted primarily of pillboxes and gun emplacements embedded in cliffsides or placed on the waterfronts of seaside resorts and ports.
	www.mizii.com /jesusi/peace/war/techno/fortification.htm (2090 words)

	Popular Autocracy in Greece 1936-41: A Political Biography of General Ioannis Metaxas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Ioannis Metaxas is a frustrating figure because he was so big a so transformative a leader (to pin Mac Gregor Burn's taxonomy of leadership onto him) that every other biography I have read has become reduced to simply the author's bias and idiosyncratic interpretation of him
		The "Metaxas Line," the line of fortifications along the Greco-Bulgarian borders, which was judged by the attacking Germans as a formidable work of military engineering, is absent from the pages of progressive historian.
		Contrary to his political foes who were nothing but a troop of hypertrophied babbits washed up by the flood of the times, Metaxas was an elite man of action and subjectivist rather than a politician as demagogue who plays on the masses as on a piano.
	www.enotalone.com /books/0714648698.html (578 words)

	THE GERMAN CAMPAIGN IN THE BALKANS (SPRING 1941): PART III
		The Metaxas Line was held by three infantry divisions, the 7th and 14th east of the Strimon, the 18th west of that river.
		Because of the length of the lines of communications with the zone of interior and the bad road conditions in the Balkans, strict supply economy had to be imposed.
		The frontal attack on the Metaxas Line, undertaken by one German infantry and two reinforced mountain divisions of the XVIII Mountain Corps, met with extremely tough resistance from the Greek defenders.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/wwii/balkan/20_260_3.htm (11052 words)

	object (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The "Metaxas" line was held by 3 infantry divisions, the 7'th and 14'th east of the Strimon, and the 18'th west of that river.
		In total, including the fortress garrisons in the Metaxas line and some border guard companies, the Greek forces defending the Bulgarian border consisted of roughly 70000 men, under the command of the Greek second army with its headquarters in the vicinity of Salonika.
		The XXX Corps was to reach the Aegean coast by the shortest route, and attack the Metaxas fortifications situated behind the Nestos from the east.
	50th.wwiionline.org /history.html (1396 words)

	[ The Metaxas Project ] A letter from Metaxas' wife (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Travlos of Security was at the other end of the line who told Metaxas that the French Ambassador was asking to see him.
		When he returned to our room Metaxas told me right away, ‘We are at war; I must dress quickly.’ He was ready in fifteen minutes and rang first the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where his office was located instructing it to inform the King and the border guard posts.
		We received Palairet and Nicoloudis in the main entrance, when Metaxas told them we were at war; help us for we are ready to fight for our country’s honour.
	www.metaxas-project.com /letter.html (500 words)

	Second World War Books: Review
		The first chapter of The Maginot Line discusses the evolution of French fortifications, particularly leading up to and during World War I. Much attention is paid to describing the strengths and weaknesses of French fortifications (such as Verdun) which took part in the war.
		The troops manning the Line were, although garrison forces, generally built around regiments and battalions of first-quality men, with strength tripled by activation of reservists during mobilization.
		The Maginot Line, on the contrary, held out well and was not penetrated until after the interval troops had been withdrawn in June of 1940.
	www.sonic.net /~bstone/archives/980111.shtml (1824 words)

	CHAPTER 3 Campaign in Greece \| NZETC
		The Greek forces in the Metaxas line covering Salonika were likewise in a critical position, although they were only expected to delay the enemy advance as long as possible.
		Fourth Brigade was withdrawn from the Aliakmon line and sent to the Servia Pass, a pivot position for the intermediate line and the final defensive position.
		The Thermopylae line, behind which the Anzac Corps was regrouping, extended from the coast near Molos along a ridge running east and west to the Pindus Mountains.
	www.nzetc.org /etexts/WH2-21Ba/c3.html (14047 words)

	W.W.II
		The Germans had not built any defense lines to the rear and could not dig in because the ground was frozen hard as concrete.
		On the other hand, the line of the Wisla was as far as the Soviet armies could go on a broad front without pausing to replenish their supplies.
		An offensive late in the month demolished the Gothic line but failed in three months to carry through to the Po River valley and was stopped for the winter in the mountains.
	mrccequipment.freeservers.com /wwii.htm (12534 words)

	helmodww2b (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Moreover, despite the adoption of some of the external trappings the fascism of Metaxas, and notwithstanding the high degree of German penetration of the economy, Greece's external relations, in part as consequence of pro-British proclinities of King George II, remained oriented towards the UK.
		Metaxas, authoritarian, unpopular, and unrepresentative though he was, captured the national mood in a dignified rejection of the ultimatum.
		The British participants were under the impression that Papagos had agreed to an immediate withdrawal of Greek forces from the fortified Metaxas Line on the Bulgarian frontier to the natural defensive line of the Aliakmon River in Western Macedonia, there to link up with the British expeditionary force.
	www.ucc.ie /staff/jprodr/macedonia/helmodww2b.html (514 words)

	Encyclopedia: Greco-Italian War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Some of the remaining Greek forces were deployed in a line of fortifications along the Bulgarian frontier (the Metaxas_Line) and most of the rest were with the British intervention forces deploying north of Larissa.
		The British wanted the Greeks to abandon the Metaxas Line and deploy north of Larissa; the Greeks vacillated.
		The Germans invaded Yugoslavia at the same time as Greece and so were able to outflank the Metaxas line by moving through southern Yugoslavia.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Greco_Italian-War (1143 words)

	Greek WW2 what-if #1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		After Metaxas death in January 1941 and 1941-46 period this led into considerable internal problems both with the resistance movement and the Greek armed forces in exile as well as the government in exile that played a considerable role to leading to the Greek civil war afterwards.
		So Metaxas is overthrown in June 1937, George Papandreou installs a provisional government and conducts elections and a referendum over the future of the monarchy, given its support of Metaxas, in early 1938.
		Othonaios steals the Greek army of Albania from the greatest part of its reserves and the cavalry division to man the Ilarion line well before the German attack is launched and does the same with the divisions behind the Metaxas line in eastern Macedonia.
	www.seriousliving.net /new-2779291-477.html (3832 words)

	GI -- World War II Commemoration
		The plan was for the Second Army to break through the Yugoslav lines on a broad front north and northeast of Zagreb and to advance southward between the Drava and Sava rivers toward Belgrade.
		The second was placed in the southwest corner of Bulgaria to attack through and around the flank of the Metaxas Line toward Salonika, and the third was moved close to the eastern end of the Greek-Bulgarian border.
		On April 9, Salonika fell, and the Greek Second Army surrendered, thereby ending resistance on the Metaxas Line and in all the territory east of Salonika.
	www.grolier.com /wwii/wwii_7.html (2320 words)

	MSN Encarta - World War II
		The Maginot line, which only extended to the Belgian border, was intact, but the French commander, General Maxime Weygand, had nothing with which to screen it or Paris on the north and west.
		The Greek army of 430,000, unlike the Yugoslav, was fully mobilized, and to some extent battle tested, but national pride compelled it to try to defend the Metaxas line northeast of Salonika.
		By one short thrust to Salonika, the Germans forced the surrender on April 9 of the line and about half of the Greek army.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563737_4/Allies.html (1105 words)

	Greece; a flawed campaign that cost us dearly
		The Greek Army consisted of 21 divisions, 15 of which were on the Albania front and 3 on the Metaxas line along the Greek/Bulgarian border in eastern Macedonia and Thrace.
		A rear defensive line from Mt Olympus along the south bank of the Aliakmon River was also planned for a protracted defence.
		On 24 April, the Germans attacked the Thermopylae line which was held by the 6th NZ Brigade on the east and the 19th Australian Brigade on the west.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-battles/ww2/greece.htm (1743 words)

	War Documentary Descriptions
		The battle for Stalingrad, long lines of troops march along the bend of the Don, horses bathe in a river, captured Soviets bring their own weapons to a collection point, Stukas attack enemy bunkers, tanks, artillery and armored infantry win a battle, the Volga is reached, Stalingrad fortifications come under fire.
		On the perimeter of the new main line of resistance in the central sector of the Eastern Front, German infantry, artillery, tanks, and rockets repel Soviet advances, a sergeant is awarded the Knight's Cross.
		In the east, a motorcycle messenger drives through snow to alert a battle group in a dugout, which is being sent to the front line, at the edge of a village, Soviet tanks are fought with flak guns.
	www.germanfilms.com /war/tee.html (14396 words)

	Fortress Europe: European Fortifications of World War II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Maginot Line, the massive series of fortifications built by France in the 1930s to defend its borders with Germany and Italy, is perhaps the most maligned collection of fortifications ever built.
		The Atlantic Wall is perhaps the most famous World War II-era fortification line in Europe, but in fact Germany built other fortified defensive lines throughout the entire war--from the coastal defenses along the English Channel to the famous West Wall and the hurriedly constructed East Wall.
		The Maginot Line and the Atlantic Wall are, perhaps, the most famous World War II-era fortification lines in Europe, but in fact, most European countries built fortified defensive lines throughout the first half of the twentieth century.
	www.enotalone.com /books/030681174X.html (955 words)

	Greek policy and the Macedonian Question (1928-1941) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The pressures against Greek-Macedonia were eased after the restoration of the country's international prestige, during Venizelos last premiership (1928-32).
		Greece's rapprochement with Turkey in 1928-30, the Greek-Turkish alliance agreements of 1933 and 1938, and the country's participation in the 1934 Balkan Pact, all aimed at blocking Bulgarian expansionism, which would inevitably be directed towards Macedonia and western Thrace.
		The same aim lay behind the building on the border between Greece and Bulgaria of the defensive Metaxas line at the end of the 1930s.
	www.kcl.ac.uk /humanities/cch/mapmig/mac_herit/HellenicMacedonia/en/A4.2.2.2.html (127 words)

	Balkan Front Game Report
		Divisions to slip west of the Metaxas line and destroy the western most defenders - who, forgetting to have a Division in this hex, couldn't exert any ZOC in the enemy's path (a painful lesson I will not forget next time!).
		The Metaxas Line is attacked and a portion of it overrun (5:1 - 1 = DR) by Bulgarians and Germans with lots of Stuka support.
		The 60th Mot Division enters the mountains southeast of Veroia while the Das Reich, LSSAH and 9th Pz attack the New Zealanders in their positions northeast of Larisa but are rebuffed by the resolute Kiwi defence (2:1 +2 = AS).
	userpage.fu-berlin.de /~broszies/generalstab/archiv/bf02/bf02_13.html (1213 words)

	Modern and Contemporary Macedonia, vol
		Yet at a summit meeting in Athens on 22 February 1941, the withdrawal of the Greek forces to a line along the Aliacmon was agreed as the basis of joint defence planning.
		The idea, however, of the withdrawal of the Greek forces to this line was still rejected, contrary to the suggestions of the local commands in Western and Eastern Macedonia.
		Instead, the battleworthy troops in Eastern Macedonia were kept static behind the Metaxas line, in spite of the request of the local command to have them transferred to the Aliacmon line: Papagos had made it clear that he expected from them "only to keep high the honour of Greece and that of the Greek arms".
	www.gate.net /~mango/Stefan01.html (9214 words)

	The Avalon Project : Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Vol. 9
		Therefore there was first of all an order for a concentrated smaller part of the German forces to penetrate that line, while the other part, as planned, had to throw itself upon the Yugoslav Army and, here too with insufficient forces in the shortest possible time, had to eliminate this army.
		Therefore the Air Force had, in this case, to be employed with the greatest effect, in order that the Yugoslav action of deployment against Germany and her ally should be stopped as quickly as possible.
		It had been ordered that the batteries standing north of the station, and also the Dutch forces on the road leading north between the station and the butter factory, which presented a great handicap to our shock troops, were to be bombed.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/imt/proc/03-15-46.htm (17443 words)

	Sealion Fails parts 1 to 12
		By the end of September, the line south of the Pripyet marshes had stabilized along a line running from Kiev to Uman to Odessa, and maybe, just maybe, the Germans could be held there.
		With 4 divisions behind the Metaxas Line facing the Bulgarians, 6 covering the Axios river valley against Yugoslavia, 10 facing the Italians and 3 in reserve, The Greek Army awaited the onslaught.
		The Greek counteroffensive had torn open the Italian front line along the coast, and Greek troops were racing along the coastal road toward the Albanian ports, closely supported by the Greek Navy.
	www.geocities.com /drammos/sealion1.html (10159 words)

	Greek Evidence on the Authenticity of the Macedonians
		Both ancient and contemporary geographers and historians, such as Eforos, Pseudoskilaks, Dionisios Kalifondas, Dikearhos, Athineos and others, state that the northern boundaries of Greece begin at the Amvrakis Bay in the west and go to the Peneos River in the east (Makedonia, an anthology, Athens, 1982, p.50).
		What Deputy Vasilios Vizas demanded of the Parliament was put into practice by the dictator Ioannis Metaxas, Greek Prime Minister from 1936 to 1941, in whose period about 6,000 Macedonians, together with the communists, were fined, harassed or sent to the islands simply because they spoke the Macedonian language.
		One of the first things he did was to retaliate against deputy Stelios Sklavenas for his speech in Parliament in support of the Macedonian cause, by sending him to the dungeons of Manyadakis, chief of the Security police, where he was virtually subjected to inquisition.
	www.historyofmacedonia.org /MacedonianGreekConflict/GreekEvidence.html (3686 words)

	Hellenic Foreign Policy (1936-1944)
		Gathering in favour of King George II and the dictator Ioannis Metaxas.
		Ioannis Metaxas with the Propaganda minister of A. Hitler, J. Goebbels, during the visit of the German appointee to Greece.
		Hitler and members of his staff are studying a map which illustrates the positions of the warring parties during the Soviet Union campaign.
	pegasos.fhw.gr /projects/cooperations/f_policy36_45/en/photo/index.html (1885 words)

	helmodww2v (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		On 9 March the Italians launched a second offensive against the Greeks on the Albania front, but despite now having 28 divisions at their disposal they were unable to break through.
		Corps to move from southern Yugoslavia into Greece, outflanking the Aliakmon Line and isolating the Greek troops that Papagos had refused to withdraw from the Albanian front.
		Corps broke through the Metaxas Line and captured Salonika on 9 April.
	www.ucc.ie /staff/jprodr/macedonia/helmodww2v.html (1382 words)

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