13 Armed resistance, collaboration, and the politics of Dr. Frankenstein

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword VII
3. Acknowledgments XIII
4. Contents XVII
5. List of acronyms XIX
6. 1 Prologue 1
7. 2 The troubled country: Greece in the early twentieth century 14
8. 3 The making of a heroine: Lela Karayanni, 1898–1941 28
9. 4 The British secret services in Greece at the beginning of the war 38
10. 5 Greece at war: October 1940–May 1941 51
11. 6 Lela Karayanni, resister and secret agent I: Mana Karayanni 70
12. 7 The Kokkinia escapes 95
13. 8 Disaster in the Aegean 118
14. 9 The smuggler the famine, and the rise of EAM 135
15. Illustrations 162
16. 10 Lela Karayanni, resister and secret agent II: Spies and saboteurs, 1941–1942 178
17. 11 Thurgoland and Harling 224
18. 12 From Prometheus to Apollo and the Lela connection 236
19. 13 Armed resistance, collaboration, and the politics of Dr. Frankenstein 254
20. 14 Lela Karayanni, Righteous Among Nations 265
21. 15 Apollo wounded 279
22. 16 The Grand Scheme and Lela’s arrest 289
23. 17 The heroic deaths 313
24. 18 Liberation and aftermath 325
25. 19 Epilogue: Lela Karayanni, the armed resistance and the politicization of memory 339
26. Chronology of the main WW II events in Greece 350
27. List of photography sources 353
28. Bibliography 354
29. Index 360