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The specter of ravenous hunger haunts the streets of Athens. Occupiers, traitors, and big sharks are siphoning off our lifeblood. With the opening of the warehouses, the people of Athens have demonstrated their resolve: they will not allow the horrors of the terrible winter of \u201941 to recur!<\/p>\n
[…] Better to fall to the bullets in the fight for liberation than to perish from hunger on the streets.<\/p>\n
Excerpt from the proclamation of the EAM [General State Archives, Archive of Heraklis Petimezas]<\/p>\n
The deadly famine during the occupation contributed to the mass mobilization of the Resistance in Athens, with the National Liberation Front (EAM) organizing the first strike actions demanding a solution to the food crisis and condemning the black market. The Resistance intensified with the creation of numerous other resistance organizations, taking on various forms (demonstrations, sabotage, espionage, armed struggle), successfully achieving demands and striking against the occupiers. The occupiers and their collaborators responded with reprisals, mass executions, and blockades, which peaked in the last year of the Occupation.<\/p>\n
IMAGES: ANNOUNCEMENTS \u2013 GAK, Archive of Heracles Petimezas<\/b><\/p>\n Thursday, 16.7.1942<\/p>\n Today, a large rally took place. Hundreds of students, workers, and citizens gathered to protest the planned cuts to food rations. They say that instead of rations, grocers will provide food. \u201cBut who will give us wood to cook with?\u201d asks the impoverished community quite justifiably. Firewood has reached 100 drachmas, and charcoal 400. And then, who guarantees that the grocers won\u2019t cheat us?<\/p>\n The rallying cries of the people are \u201cWe want food rations\u201d and \u201cDown with Gotzamani.\u201d<\/p>\n Eirini Zacharia, Diary of the Occupation 1941-1943, Athens 2016<\/p>\n Note: Sotirios Gotzamani (1885-1958) was Minister of Finance and later of Agriculture, Commerce, Industry, and Food Supply.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image=”22899″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] The specter of ravenous hunger haunts the streets of Athens. Occupiers, traitors, and big sharks are siphoning off our lifeblood. With the opening of the warehouses, the people of Athens have demonstrated their resolve: they will…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22899,"parent":22743,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cultureisathens.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cultureisathens.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cultureisathens.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cultureisathens.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cultureisathens.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cultureisathens.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22901,"href":"https:\/\/cultureisathens.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22751\/revisions\/22901"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cultureisathens.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cultureisathens.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cultureisathens.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n