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It was on Sunday, April 27, 1941, when German troops entered Athens.
The capital’s residents remained stubbornly locked up in their homes.

The hoisting of the Nazi swastika flag on the Acropolis marked the beginning of the German Occupation.
Soon, the Germans set up a puppet government with Georgios Tsolakoglou, the general who signed the capitulation, as prime minister.

As the Wehrmacht motor units began rolling into the empty streets, the voice of the Athens Radio Station announcer Konstantinos Stavropoulos echoed inside the homes of Athenians— and still echoes eerily through the decades.

“Attention! Attention!” Stavropoulos’ voice thundered through homes, “The capital is falling into the hands of the conquerors.
On the Sacred Rock of the Acropolis, the blue and white is no longer flying proud. Instead, it is replaced by the banner of violence.
The guard of our flag, ordered to take it down to raise the German flag, committed suicide by jumping off the cliff at the point where the blue and white was flying.
Long live Greece!”
The radio silence was broken several hours later with the first announcement of the Nazi conquerors, in Greek and German as follows.

“The Mayor of Athens, retaining all the powers in the city of Athens under German Occupation, announces that today, Sunday, April 27th, at eight o’clock am, German troops entered the city of Athens and took possession of it.”