A Nazi-esque Greece?

Angel Heart

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Okay, this one might sound strange, but I'm working on a timeline so I need some advice from you guys since I'm not an expert in Greek history. My question is: How plausible would be a Greek counterpart of Nazi Germany? I know in OTL we had a fascist Greece, but how about a Nazi version? I'm thinking of a Greece with the same scale of propaganda and populism, a similar racial system and especially the megalomania as the Reich. Also this ATL Greece claims to be the the Neo Byzantine Empire and has the ultimate goal to restore it and to "rehellenize" the Balkans and Anatolia. The POD would be 1922 after the defeat against Turkey.

To cut a long story short: This "Neo Byzantium" is a Greek carbon copy of Nazi Germany. How plausible would this be in theory and in reality? Who would be suitable as a leader? Might Metaxas do the trick or do we need someone who would a similar wacko like Hitler? And might this Greece be an ally of the Axis in WW2 or will there be hostilities with Italy like in OTL?
 
Not even the most rabid Greek ultranationalist would ever hope to "rehellenize" the Balkans and Asia Minor in 1922.

Greece was a very poor and underdeveloped country in the 1920s, it had faced 10 years of war, civil strife and famine; and now it had to face the problem of settling hundreds of thousands of refugees from Asia Minor and from other places. What i am trying to say is that Greece was in no position to rehellenize anything, let alone recreate the Byzantine Empire. It's population was dirt poor and a large part of it was illiterate and lived in rural areas.

It is true that Greek nationalists had some irredentist tendencies, but they were limited at Northern Epirus, the Agean Islands and Cyprus, or small border revisions with Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. Regarding Anatolia, the whole point of the massive population exchanges was that Greece would lose any future claim to Asia Minor. A claim which ofcourse they did lose since the remaining Greeks in Asia Minor were outnumbered by the Turks at least 100 to 1.

Even Metaxas, who can be called a fascist, basically wanted Greece to be left alone. I doubt the expansionist rethoric would work on anyone after the immense suffering brought by the last war. And the racial policies you were talking about would have certainly brought Greece in conflict with Bulgaria, Albania or Yugoslavia, since Greece did have minority populations in the North, a fact that would show itself later during the Axis occupation.
 
I guess it would be possible although its far more likely that it would look like fascist Italy rather than Nazi Germany Metaxas also was more of a Mussolini type than a Hitler. Your POD probably should be something to do with The Greco-Turkish War it was a pretty humiliating defeat for Greece which rather puts a damper on the whole Megali Idea. Something simple like keeping King Constantine away from the war might give Greece a shot at doing well enough to think they could possibly win up until the point when the Western Powers pull out thus giving them a convenient scapegoat to blame. Later just prolong the turbulence that lead to Metaxas being named PM maybe even have a more successful Greek Communist Party to really fire up the reactionary elements in Greece and there you go the perfect recipe for extreme nationalism.
 
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