Strategies of evasion: Avoiding the issue of collaboration and indifference during the Holocaust in Greece ANDREWAPOSTOLOU

Just days after the Allied landing in Normandy and the capture of Rome, the German occupying forces rounded up the 2,000-strong Jewish community on the Greek island of Corfu. On June 9, 1944, the mayor of the city of Corfu, Spyridonos Kollas, along with the prefect of Corfu, Ioannes Komianos, and the chief of police, Pericles Dedopoulos, issued a public notice celebrating the forthcoming expulsion of the Jews:

Corfiot Patriots, Now commerce finds itself in our own hands! Now we ourselves shall reap the gains of our labor! Now the supply of food and the economic situation will turn to our

advantage! The entirety of the Jews’ fortune belongs to the Greek state, and conse-

quently to all of us.