This page is part of an mirror of © FOTW Flags Of The World website
This website is devoted to the science of vexillology (the study of flags).
All illustrations presented on this website serve exclusively to provide information in the context of vexillology.
The authors and hosts of this site explicitly distance themselfes from any symbols of unconstitutional organizations that may be depicted here.
Last modified: 2016-09-24 by ivan sache
Keywords: greek democratic army |
Links: FOTW homepage |
search |
disclaimer and copyright |
write us |
mirrors
See also:
The Greek Democratic Army was formed from the reorganization of
the irregular forces of the Greek Communist Party
(KKE) in 1947, at the height of the Greek
Civil War, and (unfortunately) they fought against Greeks.
This "Army" lasted until the final campaigns of the Government troops
in 1949.
The ELAS (Ellinikos Laikos Apeleyterotikos Stratos, Greek
People's Liberation Army) was a broad left partizan group, the
largest in Greece during the Second World War, but it was disbanded
after the bloody events of December 1944 and the Varkiza agreement.
The later irregular forces of the KKE when the Civil War started in
1946 were to a great extent drawn from ELAS, but the two groups
should not be confused.
Constantine Plakidas, 18 April 2003
![[Flag of Greek Democratic Army]](../images/g/gr^dse.gif)
Flag of the Greek Democratic Army - Image by António Matins, 17 March 2016
Adonation stamp was issued in spring 1949 in the Soviet-occupied
Germany. Theme of donations stamp was the Greek Civil War 1948/49. The legend of the stamp is Verteidigt den Frieden, helft dem demokratischen Griechenland (Defend peace, help democratic Greece).
The stamp shows the flag of the Greek Democratic Army, as blue with a large white cross, its arms thick as one third of the flagÕs height, and in
the center a red disc tangent to the four blue fields,
charged with a white equilateral triangle, pointing up and tangent to
the edge of the disc, voided to a thickness of about 5% of the flagÕs
height, making a Greek letter Δ.
Other versions of the flag featured a star in the middle (images, Potsdam, 1948; photos, Zwickau, 1948).
The correct logo of the Democratic Army of Greece (images) was a red letter Δ
in a blue circle. There were also versions with a red Δ and a red
circle, or with a white Δ on a red disk.
Jens Pattke & António Martins, 18 March 2016
![[Flag of Greek Democratic Army]](../images/g/gr^dse1.gif)
Flag of the Greek Democratic Army - Image by Ivan Sache, 1 March 2001
The flag of the Greek Democratic Army was white with a white triangle with a red border, inscribed in a blue ring, itself inscribed in a white triangle with a red border.
Alexander Fragkos, 1 March 2001
Advertisement:
Bei Fahnenversand.de erhalten Sie eine Vielzahl an hochwertigen Flaggen, Pins und Aufnähern, zum Beispiel:
