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Hello there, thanks for downloading the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Rob Walker. Today the little known story of the devastating famine which happened in Greece

after the German army invaded in World War II.

Within months of the occupation, tens of thousands of people were dying of hunger.

We are speaking to a 94-year-old who has vivid memories of what it was like to live through those days.

The Axis octopus stretches out its tentacles in an effort to grab Greece.

King George of Greece in a message to his people says, I'm sure that every Greek will do his duty to the end.

In October 1940 Italy invaded Greece.

The Greek army fought back heroically, but in April 1941 Nazi Germany attacked in support of Italy,

and by June the whole of Greece was occupied.

My first memory is, we're sitting with all my family in Athens where we had been as sort of refugees.

I mean we had moved to Athens.

At the time Athinarka Kori was 12 years old.

She says that in the early stages of the war,

her family had fled from their home city of Patras

and had only recently arrived in the capital.

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