During this period , the British intelligence suspected the EAM/ELAS resistance for collaboration with the Axis . As such EAM/ELAS refused to provide support to the British units and on some occasions even betrayed them to the Germans . There is documentary evidence that Zervas had certain understandings with the Axis commanders and with British support , he turned against ELAS during a ceasefire with the Germans . Zervas , undoubtedly aimed to get rid of the Axis , but lacked the qualities and the organizational background to form a strong resistance movement and saw EDES as a tool to fight the occupation troops and advance his own fortunes . For Zervas the first priority was EAM/ELAS . Reports sent on 10 August 1943 by the German Chief of Staff in Giannina suggested that he believed Zervas was ' loyal ' to their operations . According to German post-war testimonies , resistance was temporarily limited in Epirus and the local population was terrorized partly due to the reprisals and executions in Paramythia in September 1943 . During October 1943-October 1944 Zervas consistently rejected active collaboration though he favoured a temporary coexistence . According to German records , a conspiracy of German-Ralli 's collaborationist government-British ca n't be sustained . This policy of coexistence enabled the Germans to concentrate their operations against ELAS . Zervas ' pro-royalist tendencies and close collaboration both with the Germans and the British Office destroyed EDES ' initial republican and democratic ideology . In 1944 , EDES membership no longer represented the anti-monarchists but had come to reflect a broad spectrum of right-wing forces which opposed both the Germans and ELAS . A short-lived German attempt to coopt EDES and use them against ELAS partisans failed and by July 1944 EDES attacks against the Germans resumed . A German report of 17 July 1944 , stated that " the destruction of the EDES pocket " is of vital importance
executions in Paramythia
Paramythia executions
Axis occupation of Greece