People of the Revolution and the USSR

Greece state institutions Monarchy and royalism 1883–1955 ○ Natural causes

The Greek field marshal who staked the war on the Albanian front

When German forces invaded across the northern frontier, the main Greek army was still tied down on the Albanian front.

Alexandros Papagos was a career officer loyal to the Greek monarchy and the Metaxas dictatorship, and the commander of the Hellenic Army during the Second World War. In 1940 he coordinated the defence against Italy's invasion from Albania and the Greek counteroffensive, but kept the army's main strength on the Albanian front as German intervention approached, weakening the defence of the Metaxas Line. During the occupation he helped form a resistance organization, was arrested and imprisoned by the Germans, and later commanded government forces in the Greek Civil War before becoming prime minister.

Greece state institutions Monarchy and royalism 1890–1947 ○ Natural causes

Patron of the restored monarchy and Metaxas dictatorship

On 4 August 1936, George II gave royal authorization to Metaxas as he suspended parliament and established the dictatorship.

George II was the Greek king who pursued the restoration and survival of the monarchy through successive political crises. After returning to the throne in 1935, he authorized Ioannis Metaxas's rise and the dictatorship established on 4 August 1936, joining royal authority to military authoritarianism. He maintained Greece's alignment with Britain during the war and opposed the Italian and German invasions, but his exiled government and post-liberation campaign for a royal return placed him in conflict with the resistance forces and left a contested political legacy. He died soon after returning to the throne in 1946.