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CHAPTER 9 – THE GREEK CASE: VENEZIS 
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the 1945 edition is to “my tortured mother and to all the tortured mothers of the 
World”.
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. Elias receives the occasional kindness from a Turk,
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, but the Greek 
prisoners who have managed to obtain favourable treatment from the Turks and to 
act as the ruling class in the camps are totally disgusting,
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, Turkish resistance to the 
Greek occupation is quite understandable and referred to in terms of admiration,
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, 
evils perpetrated by the Greeks are not entirely ignored .
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. The most disagreeable 
and uncharitable set of prisoners is a collection of Greek priests
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. 
Consistently with an overtly non-nationalistic outlook, the word “Ελλάδα” (Greece) 
is not used in the book, and “πατρίδα” (fatherland) while occasionally used for a 
particular locality or 
memleket
by the Christians, is only used to refer to Greece by a 
sarcastic Turk.” O Έλληνας” (The Greek) or “Oι Έλληνες” (the Greeks
 
) are referred 
to as interlopers.
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. As the prisoners are “skimmed” (
ξάφρισμα
)
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for instant death at 
the beginning of the book, the Turks pick on a man who tries to escape death by 
claiming he is an Italian citizen; but Elias remembers that when the Greeks came (in 
the third person, as if they were strangers) the same man, a hotelier, welcomed them 
and “not finding a flag to wave used a bed-sheet smelling of doubtful things and 
shouted: ‘Long Live Liberty!’”
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. 
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Venezis 2008, dedication page. 
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Venezis 2008, 172-174. 
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Venezis 2008, 256-258. 
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Venezis 2008, 108. 
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Venezis 2008, 186. 
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Venezis 2008, 112. 
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Venezis 2008, 48. 
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Venezis 2008, 46. 
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Venezis 2008, 44. 

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