Battle of Greece and Battle of Crete - World War II DOCUMENTARY

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My father was a medic with the 2/5th Australian General Hospital, & was captured during the campaign near Ekali, later spending 2 1/2 years in a prison camp in Poland. About 30 years later, the Greek Government awarded him a medal in appreciation of his service. He was particularly proud of this medal, which I still have.

Musolini : I will become the new Roman Emperor. Random Greek soldier defending Hill 731: Hold my souvlaki.

Enormous respect to the Greeks and their eternal thirst of liberty, from France. 🇫🇷 🇬🇷

Malta, Crete, Sicily, and Cyprus: The headache of the big land powers of Europe.

to expect the Greeks not to fight was the dumbest thing to ever expect. Mussolini needed this channel to learn about Greek spirit for independence and that even when divided they always band together every time there is a foreign nation invading it.

Honestly this portion of WW2 is often overlooked in American high schools. I'm truly impressed with the bravery and discipline of the Greek armies and their civilians who risked their lives for their troops. Thanks to this channel I can learn such amazing things.

My grandfather fought in Greece and Crete with the Australian Army.

Much love for Greece and excellent efforts. Happy 200th Anniversary of Greek independence. From UK 🇬🇧🇬🇷

Greetings all from the island of Crete!🇬🇷

In Greece we refer the Battle of Greece as the EPOS of 40. However, after watching this video, I realise for the first time how epic those battles truly were!

40:52 This is a legendary battle for hill 731, where the greek possitions were so heavily bombarded that by the end of it the hill was 5 meters shorter, but it was defended successfully.

We will never forget that Republique d'Haiti was first country that recognized Greece as a independent country (1822). Thank you.

Big respect to Hellas🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷 from norway 🇳🇴

I suppose this full story of Greece during WWII is a tribute to the 200 years after the Greek War of Indepedence. As a Greek guy myself, I wanna say thank you Kings and Generals!

my grandpa fought with his 4 brothers in this war...1 of them died and never been found... I have all the brothers in a picture with the award medals...

Proud Aussie here, seeing all these comments and the gratitude from greek people warms my heart, Australia has a large greek population and they are such lovely and kind people, us Anzacs were proud to fight and die for your homeland in the name of freedom and liberty 🇦🇺🇳🇿🇬🇷💙💙💙

Ok, I just watched the Byzantine- Arab battle of Nikiou and now this? Didn't have imagined spending so much time watching quality historical stuff on Youtube. Kudos!

My dad was born in Athens ,1934. His uncles , as he used to tell me had to return from Epirus region to Athens on foot after the collapse of the albanian front. I remember one of them when i was very young. He had suffered extreme mental trauma. He escaped a firing squad in Athens later on and ever since never recovered. I've visited the war museum in Kalpaki 5 years ago. I had no words to describe the respect for those men that fought an entire invading army in those terrible weather conditions. Excellent video !

Germany: so how is your progress towards Athens going? Italy: pretty good at this rate we might just stop the Greek Army before they reach Vlore Germany: bruh...