| Ioannis Rallis |
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| 1878 births | |
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Ioannis Rallis ( 1878 - 1946 ) was the third Nazi Collaborator prime minister of Greece , from 7 April 1943 to 12 October 1944, succeeding Konstantinos Logothetopoulos in the Nazi-held puppet government in Athens . Rallis was instrumental in creating the so-called "Security Batallions," i.e. Collaboration ist paramilitary groups equipped by the Nazis and dedicated on the persecution of Resistance groups (mainly Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos , or ELAS.) All three quisling administrators ( George Tsolakoglou , K. Logothetopoulos and I. Rallis) presided over what was in effect a Puppet-regime (1941-44) completely subordinate to the Nazi occupation authorities. Thus, they all failed to prevent the Nazis from imposing heavy "reconstruction" fees on Greece, eventually paid by the confiscation of all kinds of crops and precipitating a terrible Famine that cost the life of more than 300,000 people (mainly in the urban areas of the country.) They also did not react to the annexation of the northern territories of Thrace and Eastern Macedonia to the Axis partner Bulgaria . After the liberation of Greece, Rallis was sentenced to Life Imprisonment for collaboration and died in jail in 1946. Ioannis Rallis's son George Rallis became prime-minister during 1980-1981. |