Provided by Hellenic Electronic Center - www.greece.org During
the Battle for Greece almost 20,000 enlisted Greek men were
killed, and more than a 100,000 were wounded or frostbitten, one
fifth of them ending up amputees. About 4,000 civilians were
killed in air raids, which also destroyed hundreds of buildings,
including churches, hospitals and schools. But those numbers
pale by comparison to the loss of human life experienced during
the occupation. According to conservative estimates the deaths
resulting directly from the war before the war ended, adds up to
about 578,000. That number comprises the deaths resulting from
the persistent famine caused by the economic policies of the
Axis, and the violent deaths resulting from the resistance and
the reprisals; but it does not include the deaths resulting from
diseases such as TB and malaria, persistent malnutrition, wounds
and exposure, which are a direct result of war conditions, but
which occurred shortly after the end of the war. Doxiadis
estimates the overa