World War II and German Occupation
With the beginning of World War II Grivas was transferred to the operations department of the central headquarters of the Greek army, working on the northern Greece's strategic defense plans. Three months after the Italian attack on Greece, Georgios Grivas was transferred to the Albanian front as chief of staff of the 2nd Division where he arrived in December 1940.
During the German-Italian-Bulgarian occupation of Greece in World War II he founded and led the Organisation X, a minor nationalist organisation made up of officers of the Greek army whose influence was limited in certain neighbourhoods of Athens. During the events of December 1944, members of Organisation X (the weapons were recovered from the German army in their retreat from Greece) fought at the Theseon alongside British and Greek monarchist forces to take control of Athens from EAM/ELAS fighters. The accusation that Georgios Grivas collaborated with the German forces is a falsification of some British writers which was adopted (see "O Grivas kai i X-To Xameno Arxeio-Spyros Papageorgiou-2004-Nea Thesis-Athens)(see Greek Civil War). In 1946 he retired from the Greek army on his own request but his subsequent attempts to enter politics were unsuccessful.
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