Greek Resistance - Table of Main Resistance Groups

Table of Main Resistance Groups

Further information: List of Greek Resistance organizations
Group name Political orientation Political leadership Military arm Military leadership Estimated peak membership
National Liberation Front (Ethnikó Apeleftherotikó Métopo/ΕΑΜ)
 Broad leftist front affiliated with the Communist Party of Greece Georgios Siantos Greek People's Liberation Army (Ellinikós Laikós Apeleftherotikós Stratós/ELAS) Aris Velouchiotis, Stefanos Sarafis 50,000 + 30,000 reserves (October 1944)
National Republican Greek League
(Ethnikós Dimokratikós Ellinikós Sýndesmos/EDES)		 Venizelist, nationalist, republican, socialist, anti-communist Nikolaos Plastiras (nominal), Komninos Pyromaglou National Groups of Greek Guerrillas
(Ethnikés Omádes Ellínon Antartón/EOEA)		 Napoleon Zervas 12,000 + ca. 5,000 reserves (October 1944)
National and Social Liberation
(Ethnikí Kai Koinonikí Apelefthérosis/EKKA)		 Venizelist, republican, liberal, anti-communist Georgios Kartalis 5/42 Evzone Regiment
(5/42 Sýntagma Evzónon)		 Dimitrios Psarros and Evripidis Bakirtzis 1,000 (spring 1943)

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