Turks, Swedes and Famished Greeks: Some Aspects of Famine Relief in Occupied Greece, 1941-44

Abstract

In the course of 1941-44, several attempts were made and plans devised
to provision the Axis-occupied Greece from outside the Allied Continental
Blockade. This paper aims at describing the two largest-scale of these plans,
the 'Turkish scheme’ as the Foreign Office called it and the much more
important relief operation that was mounted mainly under the auspices of
the Swedish Government. This latter resulted in an impressive relief operation
under neutral-Swedish-direction (with Swiss participation) which in
turn saved thousands of Greeks from death of starvation