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Album of photographs concerning the "camp" at Macronissos, an island off the coast of Greece, established in 1947-49 for the reorientation of recruits in the Greek army suspected of communist sympathies

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[1947 1949]
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  1. Campaigns & Battles
  2. Civil War
  3. Civil War, 1944 1949
  4. Greece
  5. History

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