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5 Sep 2010
History / Today is the 1st of September (WWII start in Poland) [138]
The moral component was more important.Greece was the first country to defeat an axis force.We kicked italian butts in Albania big time in 1940 and italian army never recovered from the humiliation.When Germans attacked in 1941 to save their allies Italians our troops were concentrated in albanian front and we had very few divisions in yugoslav border from where Germans invaded.(Yugoslavia was considered an allly so we had not troops in this direction).
It would be interesting to see what would happen if the bulk of our army had fought against Germans since in Thrace we managed to stop them in heavily fortified positions in the greek-bulgarian border.
The moral component was more important.Greece was the first country to defeat an axis force.We kicked italian butts in Albania big time in 1940 and italian army never recovered from the humiliation.When Germans attacked in 1941 to save their allies Italians our troops were concentrated in albanian front and we had very few divisions in yugoslav border from where Germans invaded.(Yugoslavia was considered an allly so we had not troops in this direction).
It would be interesting to see what would happen if the bulk of our army had fought against Germans since in Thrace we managed to stop them in heavily fortified positions in the greek-bulgarian border.