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FILE - In this Friday, March 13, 2015, file photo, Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, right, greets Greek Member of European Parliament Manolis Glezos at the European Parliament in Brussels. Glezos, a Greek World War II resistance hero who remained active in politics into his nineties, has died in Athens it was reported on Monday, March 30, 2020. He was 97. At age 18, Glezos and a friend and fellow university student climbed up the Acropolis in Athens at night and cut down the Nazi flag. It had been raised one month earlier when the country fell under German occupation in the spring of 1941. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)

FILE - In this Friday, March 13, 2015, file photo, Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, right, greets Greek Member of European Parliament Manolis Glezos at the European Parliament in Brussels. Glezos, a Greek World War II resistance hero who remained active in politics into his nineties, has died in Athens it was reported on Monday, March 30, 2020. He was 97. At age 18, Glezos and a friend and fellow university student climbed up the Acropolis in Athens at night and cut d…

March 30, 2020

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Greek WWII resistance hero Manolis Glezos dies at 97
March 30, 2020 9:44 a.m.

Greek WWII resistance hero Manolis Glezos dies at 97

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Manolis Glezos, a Greek World War II resistance hero, who remained active in politics into his nineties, has died in Athens. He was 97.