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The OXI DAY
Historians credit the Greeks'fierce resistance to the later German paratrooper landings during the Battle of Crete with convincing Hitler that such attacks cost too many German lives.The from-the-air invasion of Crete was the last attempt by the Nazis to use this technique and the extra resources required to subdue Greece drained and distracted the Third Reich from its efforts on other fronts.
Had Metaxas NOT said "No!" , World War II might well have lasted considerably longer.If Greece had agreed to surrender without resistance,Hitler would have been able to invade Russia in spring,rather than making his disastrous attempt to take it in winter.
"Western nations,always happy to credit ancient Greece with the development of democracy,may owe modern Greece an equal but usually unrecognized debt for helping to preserve democracy against its enemies during World War II.
