Thur 27 Oct, 10:30am - OXI Day Event (no charge)

[Poulakidas, Jennifer]

GAPNetters:

Wanted to be sure you knew of this presentation which will kick-off a 2-day program of activities to commemorate the role of Greece and the Greek people in World War II.

The presentation is free of charge, only an rsvp is requested.  See below for more information.

 

 

Heroes Fight Like Greeks: A Lecture on Greece’s Strategic Contribution to WWII

Thursday, October 27^th

10:30 – 11:30 am

Katzen Arts Center, Third Floor [4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW] [Parking garage under Arts Center]

RSVP to: RS...@OxiDayFoundation.org

 

Speakers

Opening Remarks:           Georgetown University Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Hellenic Studies Chair, Professor Patrick Deneen

Keynote:                             Professor of History at Haverford College, Alexander Kitroeff

  

Professor Kitroeff's power-point presentation will explain why world leaders said of Greece:

• “If there had not been the virtue and courage of the Greeks, we do not know which the outcome of World War II would have been.” - Winston Churchill
• “Historic justice forces me to admit, that of all the enemies that stand against us, the Greek soldier, above all, fought with the most courage.” - Adolf Hitler
• “When the entire world had lost all hope, the Greek people dared to question the invincibility of the German monster raising against it the proud spirit of freedom.” - Franklin Roosevelt

He will also explore the ways in which Greece: 

• inspired the world as the first country to stop the Axis horror, inflicting a wound that was instrumental to Hitler’s ultimate defeat; 
• caused more fatalities to Hitler's troops in one day in the Battle of Crete than had fallen in any one day in the previous 15 months’ conquest of 11 countries; 
• was the only country whose religious leader publicly challenged the Holocaust during the brutal Nazi occupation of Greece.

 

This lecture is part of the First Annual Washington Oxi Day Celebration , commemorating the day that Greece refused to surrender in World War II, thereby inflicting the wound that eventually brought down the Axis forces in David versus Goliath fashion.

 

For more information, please visit www.OxiDayFoundation.org.