• Manolis Glezos (09/09/1922 - ). Manolis Glezos Manolis Glezos is a Greek journalist and politician of the left wing. He was born in 1922 at the island of Naxos.
  • Manolis Glezos was just 19 when he sparked Greece’s anti-Nazi resistance by tearing down the swastika from the Acropolis. This was the beginning of a life...
  • Manolis Glezos, a native of Apiranthos, Naxos, is best –but not least- known for the first resistance act against the wartime German occupation of Greece.
  • Manolis Glezos, left-wing politician and resistance fighter during WWII, died from heart failure at the age of 98 in Athens on Monday. While he is most known...
  • Manolis Glezos, famous for tearing down the Swastika from the Acropolis in 1941, will take his seat in a European Parliament populated with neo-Nazis.