Greeks have a passionate love affair with Macedonia, and even during the darkest hour of modern Greek history during the brutal occupation of the Nazis they were prepared to give their lives for keeping the province Greek. With Bulgaria’s intentions for territorial expansion at the expense of Greece’s sovereignty well documented, Greeks found it intolerable that Nazi occupiers had the intentions of expanding the Bulgarian occupation in Macedonia. Early in July 1943, Adolf Hitler asked the Bulgarian government to extend its occupation zone to encompass additional territory in Greece, and thus a massive campaign of colonisation was launched, which saw...