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Political party in Greece
The
National Union of Greece
(
Greek
:
Εθνικ? ?νωσι? Ελλ?δο?
, Ethniki Enosis Ellados or
EEE
) was a
far-right
political party established in
Thessaloniki
,
Greece
, in 1927.
Registered as a
mutual aid society
, the EEE was founded by
Asia Minor refugee
businesspeople. According to the organisation's constitution, only
Christians
could join. Its members were in political and, especially, commercial antagonism with Thessaloniki's substantial
Jewish population
.
It was eventually led by
Georgios Kosmidis
(
Γι?ργο? Κοσμ?δη?
), a banking clerk. Estimates put the party's strength at 7,000 members in 1932; by 1933, it had 3,000 of its members march to Athens, in apparent imitation of
Benito Mussolini
's 1922
March on Rome
.
[1]
However, it polled poorly in the 1934 city elections in Thessaloniki, and in 1935, the party dissolved as a result of political in-fighting.
Owing to its paramilitary uniforms and organisation, the party was commonly referred to as "The Three
Epsilons
" (
τα Τρ?α Εψιλον
) or "The Steelhelmets" (
οι Χαλυβδ?κρανοι
), in allusion to the German paramilitary
Der Stahlhelm
.
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