White Terror (Greece)

White Terror
Native nameΛευκή Τρομοκρατία
LocationKingdom of Greece
DateFebruary 1945–March 1946
TargetLeftists
Attack type
Politicide, mass murder
Deaths1,289
Victims6,681 injured, 32,632 tortured, 84,939 arrested
PerpetratorsRight-wing terror groups
MotiveAnti-communism

In Greece, the White Terror (Greek: Λευκή Τρομοκρατία) was the period of persecution of members of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and other former members of the leftist World War II-era resistance organization National Liberation Front (EAM) in 1945–1946, prior to the outbreak of the Greek Civil War. The term is used in Greece in an analogy to similar cases elsewhere.


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