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National Union of Greece Εθνική Ένωσις Ελλάδος | |
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| Founder | Georgios Kosmidis |
| Founded | 1927 (1927) |
| Dissolved | 1944 (1944) |
| Ideology | Nazism Greek nationalism Fascism Antisemitism Venizelism Anti-communism Collaborationism |
| Political position | Far-right |
| Religion | Greek Orthodox |
| Party flag | |
TheNational Union of Greece (Greek:Εθνική Ένωσις Ελλάδος, ΕΕΕ;Ethniki Enosis Ellados,EEE) was afar-right political party established inThessaloniki,Greece, in 1927.
Registered as amutual aid society, the EEE was founded byAsia Minor refugee businesspeople. According to the organisation's constitution, onlyChristians could join. Its members were in political and, especially, commercial antagonism with Thessaloniki's substantialJewish population.
It was eventually led byGeorgios Kosmidis who claimed to be a Venizelist and so did his party even though it was opposed to mostVenizelist principles.
Owing to its military uniforms and organisation, the party was commonly referred to as "The ThreeEpsilons" (τα Τρία Εψιλον) or "The Steelhelmets" (οι Χαλυβδόκρανοι), in allusion to the German paramilitaryDer Stahlhelm.
The EEE was dissolved upon the establishment of theMetaxas Regime in 1936, but was revived in 1941 byGeorgios Poulos withGerman support after the fallof Thessaloniki. Shortly after, Poulos renamed the party to "Εθνική Σοσιαλιστική Ένωση Ελλάδος" (National Socialist Union of Greece).