Basil Zaharof : An Arms Dealer and a Traitor

During the..."reign" of E. Venizelos in Greece the dark figure of Basil Zaharof rose and grew by the bribes to the Venizelos government.
It is a great unjustice that even today some "scientists" that write articles for Sunday newspapers continue to deceit the people of Greece and present Zaharof as a...patriot.
He and Venizelos were in business, they sold arms to the Greek and profited and when the deal was not profitable ant more they turned their back to the greek army in Asia Minor.
The deals Venizelos made with Zaharof explain his military menace for the Greece of the seven seas...
You can check the link of this article in Greek :
http://www.iospress.gr/mikro2005/mikro20050108.htm

Greek Militaria Shop

If you visit Crete this Summer, and you are a collector it will be like finding your personal Eldorado....
Crete had a strong allied and axis presence. Villagers have kept some memorabilia from the Battle and from german occupation, therefore if you ask around you might find a treasure...
If, however, you do not, you can visit a shop in the old town of Rethymnon.
There among other tourist attractions you will find a small shop with antiques, if you take the trouble to go inside and look around is THE place for militaria.
Many old cretans had souvenirs from killed german paratroopers, there you will find a lot!!!
Helmets, hats, belts, buckles, books, medals, you name it! This guy wanders in the near or mountainous villages and looks for these stuff. Also, if your interest in antiques is general, it is guaranteed that you will find nice pieces.
Very honest, not very cheap, but not expensive either...
If interested please send a comment to send you the address!

Looking For Resources

As any collector I am constantly looking around for militaria that might be interesting to have in my collection.
I would like to find merchants of WWII military material to buy staff that might consider attractive to have, in reasonable prices though...
Feel free to comment on this post, adding a web address, or a mail, or even a tel. number you think it might be useful. It's been a long since I found something worth the trouble and the expense.
Thank you!

German Barbed Wire & poles

Wandering around in a piece of land of my family, just outside Heraklion, I noticed some metallic objects in the fence that were now similar to those already existing. They were not only seemingly older, yet as the wire fences of civilian property use straight poles from iron, these poles were looking much more different. By making some thorough reserch on the net I found at last what these poles were. They were to be used for barbed wire fencing, from the Germans.

My grandmother rembers the Germans making similar fences.

Also in the area I found barbed wire very very different from the one that we use now. Thicker and larger thorns, that do not allow the human hand to grab the wire without being torn...