Kostas Perrikos
Kostas Perrikos ( Greek Κώστας Περρίκος , * 1905 in Kallimasia on the island of Chios ; † February 4, 1943 in Kesariani ) was a Greek air force officer and resistance fighter during the Second World War .
As an officer and supporter of Venizelos , he was involved in the failed coup in March 1935 and was subsequently discharged from the army .
During the occupation of Greece in World War II, Perrikos founded the resistance organization PEAN ( Panhellenic Union of the fighting youth , ΠΕΑΝ, Πανελλήνιος Ένωσις Αγωνιζομένων Νέων). On September 20, 1942, under his leadership, PEAN carried out an explosive attack with 14 kilograms of dynamite on the office of the National Socialist Greek organization ESPO (ΕΣΠΟ, Εθνική Σοσιαλιστική Πατριωτική Οργάνωσις) in Athens. The ESPO's area of responsibility included the recruiting of right-wing volunteer soldiers and officers for a Greek unit of the Waffen SS for the German Eastern Front. 43 German officers and 29 ESPO members, including the leader of ESPO Spyros Sterodimos, were killed in the attack. The tasks of the ESPO could not be carried out, after the attack the organization lacked support.
The attack on the ESPO office was presented by radio stations in London and Moscow as the most significant act of sabotage in the areas occupied by the National Socialist German Reich .
Together with twelve other PEAN members, Perrikos was arrested on November 11, 1942 and sentenced to death. On February 4, 1943, the sentence in Kesariani was carried out.
Kostas Perrikos is the father of the UN arms control commissioner Dimitris Perrikos (Δημήτρης Περρίκος).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The number of fatalities is stated differently in the sources
- ↑ Rigas Rigopoulos: Secret War: Greece-Middle East, 1940-1945: The Events Surrounding the Story of Service 5-16-5 . Turner Publishing Company, 2003, ISBN 1-56311-886-6 , pp. 85 ff .
- ^ Stanley G. Payne: A History of Fascism, 1914-1945 . University of Wisconsin Press, 1995, ISBN 0-299-14874-2 , pp. 427 f .
Web links
- Contribution in Ελληνικές Γραμμές (Greek)
- About the attack and Kostas Perrikos (Greek)
- About the attack and Kostas Perrikos (Greek)
- Kostas Perrikos (Greek)
- clubs.pathfinder.gr (Greek)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Perrikos, Kostas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Perrikos, Kostas; Περρίκος, Κώστας (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek air force officer and resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kallimasia on the island of Chios |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 4, 1943 |
| Place of death | Kesariani |