Words of resistance - Deutsche Welle and the Greek dictatorship | DW Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- During Greece’s military dictatorship, Deutsche Welle was the main source of uncensored news for Greeks; an overwhelming majority tuned in every night.
The Greek-language service was set up by a few brave exiled men and women. It was a beacon of press freedom, fighting fascism with words. This documentary is a personal recollection of this chapter in German-Greek history and marks the 50th anniversary of the military coup.
After being forced into exile by the right-wing "Regime of the Colonels" (1967-1974), a small handful of Greek men and women set up the famous Greek-language news service broadcast every evening by Deutsche Welle. During the seven-year dictatorship an overwhelming majority of people in Greece listened to the hour-long show, which would become a beacon of press freedom and resistance.
This documentary tells the story of the individuals who created the program, and who fought a prolonged struggle to give people in Greece hope and dignity. It takes an unprecedented in-depth look behind the historic role played by the Greek exiles and West Germany’s international broadcasting service during and after the junta.
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Weird how the other side of that event talks of purging communists from their country.
Romanian here. I dont know if military dictatorship was a good choice for Greece at that time, but what I really know for sure is that from the point of view of my country and the others from the balkans,Greece was an enemy, a capitalist country. The reality at that time was that Greece had borders with communist countries that used any opportunity to undermine Greece. The only sort of allied was suppossed to be Turkey(NATO allied) but I doubt that many greeks saw Turkey as an allied country. So,in the end, the only ones that Greece could count on was UK and USA.
President Harry Truman...was a very good find to Greece...and Turkey
Theoretically yes,Greece was an enemy of the socialist coutries of that time,as it was a NATO country and a USA ally.But the odd thing is that this military regime,although being ideologically anticommunist,has tighten close relations with all socialist countries even the USSR and the communist China.Electric power plants were build by Soviet experts,sugar factory established by Polish,agricultural machinery bought from East Germany and Romanian experts were hired for oil extraction.And guess which socialist leader was the biggest fan of Papadopoulos:yours Ceausescu!Ceausescu planned to visit Papadopoulos on November 1973,but then happened the Polytehnic school uprising and the overthrown of Papadopoulos by his close friend Ioannidis,so Ceausescu never met him.
The Colonels had good relations with Ceaucescu’s Romania
Easily one of the best periods in Greek History.
25% Debt to GDP, 2% Unemployment, absolute safety and every 10 mins patrol on the streets. No one dared steal, you could sleep with your doors open.
All freedom were suspended, neighbors turned in neighbors for talking ill of those in power. If your hair was to long, off to prison, if you skirt was to short, off to prison, if you didn't go to church, off to prison. If you had an issue with anyone, people would tell the authorities anything to get you arrested. I speak from experience, I had three family members imprisoned and tortured for ABSOLUTELY NO REASON. You're an idiot.
@@nickk7940 good
You’re a clown!
most bizarre comment section I've ever come across
interesting documentary and I have to agree with most of the assessments of those fearless journalists who took on the right wing junta backed by the US and UK that though the dictatorship is gone, the cruel unfair system of capitalism was still in place in Greece with its oligarchs and nepotism and given the current state of affairs that democratic left movement in Greece is needed now more then ever.
It was back by UK also???
Greece went down hill since the junta ended. Greece was the best under the junta
@@megaliidea1919 Junta ended cause people hate them,they stay for seven years only by violence.
It was the worst era n Greek history.
@@33bbn53 "worst era in greek history" not at all. Ottoman occupation way worse. And it ender because of some stupid socialist college kids and international pressure
...the Greek Left has done wonders with the Exarchia Neighborhood in Athens...
They were disappointed because the society didn't become a socialist one, but all the socialist systems in the Balkans collapsed fifteen years later .Consequently , those people lived an illusion
...apparently many of their supporters in the West, are still living under that illusion...
Are you suggesting that democratic principles should not exist, unless people like you define what they are? If yes, you’re a clown.
As was the case in Chilea under Pinochet the economy and GDP grew substantially under military rule and people had money.. once the bureaucrats returned with return of democracy the GDP went negative and poverty took over!
Theres a theme in the replies of critics of the junta. That they all generalize and label supporters of the regieme
💦"Fascist Washing"💦
It was the great ambition of the West German Government at that time to distract the whole world from criticism of their own Hitlerian fascist past:
-President Heinrich Luebke (elected in 1964 for a second term) was found out to have worked for the Nazi Government in a major position as important architect of concentration/death camps.
-Chancellor (same rank as Prime Minister) Kurt Georg Kiesinger (1966-1969) was confronted with his Nazi career as SS-Obersturmbandfuehrer, when he was responsible for the deportation of Jews to the death camps.
Both of them stayed in office !!
So, the West German Government gave both Communists and ill-informed idealists the chance of bombarding the Greek Military Government (same goes to the Shah Government in Persia, by the way) with all sort of propaganda claiming that Greece was being governed by "fascists": the German media just would stop at nothing to denigrate the Greek Government. The Greeks only protested saying they were not "fascists" as they had fought German and Italian fascist invaders of Greece during World War II: For the rest, the Greek "Junta" proved unable to respond rhetorically the way they should have done as they did not have a PR division to fight back. Unbelievable !
Long live the third military junta!!!
So edgy
@Sacred Squadron SAS a communist regime would be more fascist
Based
Long live April 21st!