1. Stefanos Sarafis was an officer of the Hellenic Army and Major General in EAM-ELAS, who played an important role during the Greek Resistance.
12 Facts About Stefanos Sarafis
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Stefanos Sarafis became a Venizelist and played an active role in the various military conspiracies that were formed during the troubled 1920s.
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Stefanos Sarafis participated in the two failed Venizelist coup attempts of 1933 and 1935.
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Stefanos Sarafis was exiled to the island of Milos which was populated but had no connection to military activities.
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Stefanos Sarafis was thus effectively isolated from possible contacts with active Army members.
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In 1938, Stefanos Sarafis was introduced to Marion Pascoe, an English student of the University of Oxford who visited the island to pursue her studies of archaeology.
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Stefanos Sarafis was reportedly the only person on the island with working knowledge of the English language and volunteered to help her in communicating.
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Stefanos Sarafis resurfaced as a leading figure of the Greek Resistance movement.
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Stefanos Sarafis had joined the League for Democracy in Greece in England, which campaigned for the release of political prisoners and reform of British policy towards Greece.
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Stefanos Sarafis was eventually released in 1948 and married Marion in 1952.
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Stefanos Sarafis joined the United Democratic Left at about this time.
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Stefanos Sarafis was a pedestrian casualty in a car crash on 31 May 1957 in Alimos, a suburb of Athens.