Abstract
During WWII, Greece was subject to Nazi occupation. Greek Jewry lost over 90 percent of their pre-war members.
However, soon after the Civil War broke out, the government in Athens began to crack down on the national Left, rather than to prosecute war criminals. Yet, in the late 1950s one outstanding case was brought to the court - the case of Max Merten, who played a prominent role in the "final solution." This paper refers to the trial with Merten, his discharge and the accusations he made against senior officials of the Greek government for their alleged collaboration with the occupation regime as seen by the Greek community in communist Czechoslovakia.
The analysis is based on the evaluation of articles published in the newspaper Agonistis in the period from 1957 to 1963. The author concludes that the main concern of the Greek communists in Czechoslovakia was by no means to inform impartially about the case of Merten, but rather to present the evil of the West, in this case of West Germany.