What was the political character of the regime of Ioannis Metaxas? What were the sources of inspiration, the intentions, and the regime's practices? Did we ever have fascism (in the classical, interwar, and historicized sense of the term) in our country?

The study of Ioannis Metaxas's regime automatically leads the mind to the issue of the fascist phenomenon. This book aims to answer these fundamental questions. The fascist-like external symbols (e.g., the salute with the extended palm, the double Minoan axe, etc.) and the fascistic structural elements (such as corporatism and the “Spartan ideal” of EON) have overshadowed the profoundly conservative character of the Metaxas regime.