Editing Pursuit of Nazi collaborators (section)

=== Greece ===
{{See also|Axis occupation of Greece during World War II}}

Greece was under the control of the Third Reich from 1941 to 1944. After the liberation, the country followed a controversial period of [[denazification]]. Many collaborators and especially former leaders of the Nazi-held puppet regime in Athens were sentenced to death. General [[Georgios Tsolakoglou]], the first collaborationist prime minister, was tried by the Greek Special Collaborators Court in 1945 and sentenced to death, but his penalty, like most death sentences, was commuted to life imprisonment. The second collaborationist leader, [[Konstantinos Logothetopoulos]], who had fled to Germany after the Wehrmacht's withdrawal, was caught by the US military and was condemned to life imprisonment. In 1951, he was given parole and thus died outside prison. [[Ioannis Rallis]], the third collaborationist prime minister, was tried on a treason charge; the court sentenced him to life imprisonment. However, several lower and middle figures that had collaborated with the Germans, especially members of the [[Security Battalions]] and the gendarmerie, were soon released and reinstated in their posts; in the developing [[Greek Civil War]], their anti-Communist credentials were more important than their collaboration. Indeed, in many cases the same people who had collaborated with the Germans and staffed the post-war security establishment persecuted leftist former Resistance members.

Furthermore, during 1945, a Special Court on Collaborators in [[Ioannina]] condemned, [[trial in absentia|in absentia]],<ref name = Konidaris>"[https://books.google.com/books?id=yoaOAAAAMAAJ&q=absentia Examining policy responses to immigration in the light of interstate relations and foreign policy objectives: Greece and Albania]". In King, Russell, & Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers (eds). ''The new Albanian migration''. Sussex Academic. p. 16.</ref> 1,930 [[Cham Albanians|Cham]] [[Cham Albanian collaboration with the Axis|collaborators of the Axis]] to death (decision no. 344/1945).<ref>[[#King|King 2005]]: 67</ref> The next year the same court condemned an additional 179.<ref>Ktistakis, Yiorgos. "Τσάμηδες – Τσαμουριά. Η ιστορία και τα εγκλήματα τους" [Chams – Chameria. Their History and Crimes]</ref> However, the war crimes remained unpunished since the criminals had already fled abroad.