Greek Premier Ioannis Metaxas reviews troops in Athens , Greece during World War II. Metaxas salutes aboard a ship with other officer in the background. Officers aboard the ship. Greece troops lined up. Soldiers march in review. Detachments of the Evzones troops dressed in skirts being reviewed.
Princess Margaret and Queen Elizabeth with other Royal members welcome King Paul and Queen Fredericka of Greece at railway station in London, England. British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan stands. Peace demonstrators protest at Trafalgar Square to free jailed Communists in Greece who were imprisoned 18 years prior. Police try to stop the protestors and carry some away. People demonstrate with banners.
Queen Frederica and King Paul of Greece arrive at NATO ( North Atlantic Treaty Organization ) headquarters in France. The Military Policemen stand in formation. The king and queen get off from a car. Supreme Allied Commander General Lauris Nostrand greets them. The SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe) personnel and their family look at King and Queen of Greece. Queen Frederica and King Paul visit the nerve center of Western European Defense. Queen as King Paul shakes hand with the General.
German ground offensive in Greece and Southern Yugoslavia during World War II. Soldiers stand near artillery. Artillery lined up on a field. A column of German soldiers moves through Southern Yugoslavia en route to Greece. Soldiers aboard tanks passing through the streets. A bridge is set on fire by them. Serbian prisoners of war are taken.
Young children attend Kindergarten in Greece during World War 2. Pedestrians walking on the street outside a school building. A Nazi officer speaks to an official. Men holding a sign in German “Beschlagnahmt für befehlshaber Saloniki- Ägäis abteilung verwaltung und wirtschaft” (“Confiscated for commander Saloniki-Aegean department of administration and economy” in English). School building in Greece. Greek Kindergarten students form a straight line to enter their classroom. A portrait of Adolf Hitler hangs on classroom wall. Kindergarten children clapping. A smiling nurse teaches Kindergarten students. A girl looks up with an intense expression. A boy writing diligently. Children in cribs. A young girl cradles a baby doll.
Greek soldiers in the First Balkan War battle against Turkish forces for control of the forts of Bizani on the approach to Ioannina. The Greek soldiers under the command of Crown Prince Constantine fire artillery cannons at Turkish positions holding the Fort. Smoke rises up due to explosions. Tents are erected in the far background. The Greek soldiers march along a road leading into the Fort. The Greek soldiers transport the wounded and dead Turks following the battle. Stretchers with wounded are carried by hand, and horse carts carrying dead Turkish soldiers. The Greek soldiers marching on streets in Janina, Greece (Ioannina Greece; and also called Jannena). Greek soldiers carry rifles with fixed bayonets as they march following the battle.