Κατεύθυνση Νεώτερη και Σύγχρονη Ελληνική Ιστορία
Library of the School of Philosophy

2018-11-19

2018

Ntyrkai Christina-Anna

Βαγγέλης Καραμανωλάκης, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Σπύρος Πλουμίδης, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Δήμητρα Λαμπροπούλου, Λέκτορας, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών

Ο εορτασμός της 25ης Μαρτίου κατά τη διάρκεια της Κατοχής (1941-1944)

Greek

The celebration of 25th March during the Greek Occupation (1941-1944)

The anniversary of 25th March and the memory of 1821 comprised a field of continuous political assertions and contradicting interpretations. This multi- ‘’identity’’ of the anniversary is reflected in its celebrations. Even though the ritual of the national anniversary was defined and standardized, its meaning on the contrary wasn’t stable. Although the celebrated event remained the same, the content, the interpretations and the heroic personages, which were projected, were changing according to the political message that each social or political group aimed to transmit. These rival representations of the past declared the efforts of each political or social group to impose its version as the base of the national identity. My thesis aims to examine both the forms which the celebration of the anniversary of 25th March received and the active role that this national anniversary played during the Greek Occupation (1941-1944). Specifically, it will be researched the ritual of the official celebration, as it was formed from the occupying governments. In addition, it will be read up on the protest movements that were organized from the resistance groups and the pantheon of heroes that was formed by Resistance. Thus, the main axis of this research will be the dipole between official celebration and protest movements. The central argument constitutes the fact that the Greek Revolution was instrumentalized both from the occupying governments and the Resistance, in order either to mitigate the expostulation of the society and gain its acceptance, or to glorify the resistance’s struggle and to be proclaimed as its symbol, respectively.
This research includes four chapters. The first chapter comprise the theoretical framework, in which it is presented «where» and «when» the commemorative ceremonies were developed and institutionalized. Instigating from The Social Frameworks of Memory of Halbwachs (1925) and the relation between the individual and the collective, we pass on to the performative memory and The Invention of Tradition of Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger (1983), in which the anniversary of 25th March belongs. The second chapter constitutes a brief chronicle of the celebrations from the moment of the enactment of the national anniversary until the Interwar. It also projects the continuous re-interpretations of the Greek Revolution, which were reflected on the celebrations. On the third chapter a lengthy presentation of the ritual of the official celebration via the legal press takes place. In addition, the formal discourse which has been reproduced from the occupying governments will be mentioned. On the fourth and final chapter, the resistance groups and the festivities that these groups organized during the period 1942-1944, in order to celebrate the anniversary of 25th March via the re-interpretation of its substance, will be examined in detail.

History

25th March, national anniversary, Occupation, Resistance, official celebration, protest movements

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