Hellas WW2 appreciation thread

>Be Hellas in 1930s, a peaceful dictatorship dedicated to maintaining neutrality in an ever chaotic world.
>Metaxas leader of nation.
>Hitler leaves you alone, considers his south flank ok with a neutral Greece.
>Be 1938
>Hitler swallows three countries for free.
>Mussolini gets angry that he only has a colonial empire in Ethiopia.
>Hitler talks to him about USSR invasion.
>Mussolini decides against it, saying that "Italy is not yet ready". Sends demands in written form like a normie.
>Swallows Albania like a literal ape.
>Greece looks weak.
>Mussolini be like "time to eat".
>Sends Gracci to talk to Greek ambassador.
>Metaxas asks to talk to him himself like a true chad.
>"We ask that you give us your land to secure our nation. You have three days to respond or we will attack".
>Metaxas takes three seconds "No need, we are already at war as of this moment".
>Ultragigachad moment.
>Greek army mobilises and fights in mountains using weapons of 1920, no tanks and barely any supporting infantry.
>Italian army fights with modern tanks and weapons and the first use of close air support planes.
>Gets counterattacked one month into the war.
>Counterattack almost reaches whole albania.
>Mussolini be like "Fuck fuck fuck fuck".
>Calls Hitler up "we have a-problem my-a dear-a Fuhrer-a".
>"Das war ein Befehl!"
>Hitler commits two army corps to fight Greece and Yugo.
>Metaxas dies in 1941, leaves everything to the Greek army to continue fighting.
>Greece gets attacked literally by 3 armies on all fronts since Hitler promised Bulgaria the whole of Macedonia in exchange for help in subduing Greece.
>Greece never surrenders.
>Fight almost for two years against all odds.
>Make Hitler lose the important warm months of summer in Russian offensive.
>Not even German generals expected Greece to hold that far.
>Germans fight in Rupel fort, have surrounded it.
>Asks for Greek surrender.
>Greeks say "Fuck you, forts are for the taking not to be given".
>Athens is lost.
>Fight in Crete.
>Two whole Fallschimjager battalions lost.
>Fast forward to 1945.
>"The reason we lost against Russian war is because of Greece! That idiot Mussolini wanted to fight a noble nation and dragged us into it!" (Speer memoirs)
>mfw Greece has the highest days of active fighting against Nazis among the capitulated nations combined: Greece 219 days
Norway 61 days
France 43 days
Poland 30 days
Belgium 18 days
Holland 4 days
Yugoslavia 3 days
Czechoslovakia 0 days
Denmark 0 days (the king abdicated to hitler's corporal messenger)



Never give up against your enemies, history will remember your deeds.

cope against BASED GREECE COPE

cope against BASED GREECE COPE

my condolences for being Greek

What does this have to do with coh

my condolences for being Greek

What does this have to do with coh

everything

OK. Even by your standards, this is a pretty weird thread.

OK. Even by your standards, this is a pretty weird thread.

It's history dude.

28th of October is a huge national holiday in Greece.

It's history dude.

28th of October is a huge national holiday in Greece.

Oh i see... I got confused by the wall of text with no intro. Fair enough, please excuse my ignorance.

Oh i see... I got confused by the wall of text with no intro. Fair enough, please excuse my ignorance.

It's ok.

>mfw Greece has the highest days of active fighting against Nazis among the capitulated nations combined: Greece 219 days
Norway 61 days
France 43 days
Poland 30 days
Belgium 18 days
Holland 4 days
Yugoslavia 3 days
Czechoslovakia 0 days
Denmark 0 days (the king abdicated to hitler's corporal messenger)

U do realize most of those countries share a border with germany.... right? Unlike greece....

U continually find ways to outweird urself

U do realize most of those countries share a border with germany.... right? Unlike greece....

U continually find ways to outweird urself

lmao so? you think it's easy fighting a 3 front war for 2 years?

lmao so? you think it's easy fighting a 3 front war for 2 years?

This has nothing to do with what i said lol

Im talking about ur bizarre flex of greece vs the other countries that doesnt even make sense

Its sure as hell easier than being Poland... Doesnt mean its easy tho doofus, its called context

but hey, Greece actually pushing Italian out until Reinforment from Germany come.

Actually France fought the war against germany from te 3rd september 1939 to 17 june (1941)*1940, doesn't seem to be 43 days...

Actually France fought the war against germany from te 3rd september 1939 to 17 june 1941, doesn't seem to be 43 days...

LMAO

what are you talking about?

Free French government of NA? If so, I would also like to include the fighting time of Greeks in NA AND EL ALAMEIN WHICH THEY ALSO FOUGHT BUT I DID NOT INCLUDE

but hey, Greece actually pushing Italian out until Reinforment from Germany come.

that's what i said dumus

Greece fought a 3 front war for almost two years with little help from British

This has nothing to do with what i said lol

Im talking about ur bizarre flex of greece vs the other countries that doesnt even make sense

Its sure as hell easier than being Poland... Doesnt mean its easy tho doofus, its called context

From today it's official: you cope against me.

You go against everything I say just because you earn sexual satisfaction from negating what I say.

(Signed, the only doctor on coh2.org)