George S. Mercouris was a Greek

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 politician who founded the Greek National Socialist Party. He was born in Athens

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 and studied politics

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 and economics

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 there, as well as in Paris

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 and London

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. He was Elected as parliament

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ary deputy

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 in 1915 and he served until 1929. He was Minister for Food and Supply in the Petros Protopapadakis

Petros Protopapadakis

-Life and work:Born in 1854 in Apeiranthos, Naxos, Protopapadakis studied mathematics and engineering in Paris but was keenly interested in politics. He was a professor at the Scholi Evelpidon, the military academy of Greece....

 cabinet in 1921. He became Minister for the National Economy

Minister for Economy and Finance (Greece)

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 in 1926. He served as the Greek delegate to the League of Nations

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 in 1927. Mercouris was re-elected to parliament

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, in September 1932, and made vice-president of the People's Party

People's Party (Greece)

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 which he left in November after a disagreement with its leader Panagis Tsaldaris

Panagis Tsaldaris

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. In December he founded the Greek National Socialist Party. Mercouris represented the party at the Fascist International meeting, in Montreux

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 on December 16/17 of 1934. He was among the more germano

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philic adherents of the largely Italian

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 fascism

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 oriented authoritarian, corporatist, and anti-communist

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 movement. He acted as an intermediary between Greece and Nazi Germany

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. Prime Minister Ioannis Rallis

Ioannis Rallis

Ioannis Rallis was the third and last collaborationist prime minister of Greece during the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II, holding office from 7 April 1943 to 12 October 1944, succeeding Konstantinos Logothetopoulos in the Nazi-controlled Greek puppet government in Athens.- Early...

 (during the Axis

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 occupation) appointed him Governor

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 of the Bank of Greece

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 in 1943. He died of a heart attack

Myocardial infarction

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. Mercouris was the uncle of the actress, singer, and politician, Melina Mercouri

Melina Mercouri

Melina Mercouri , born as Maria Amalia Mercouri was a Greek actress, singer and politician.As an actress she made her film debut in Stella and met international success with her performances in Never on Sunday, Phaedra, Topkapi and Promise at Dawn...

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