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FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015 file photo, the veteran leftist politician and candidate with the newly-formed left-wing Popular Unity party Manolis Glezos acknowledges the supporters during a pre-election rally, in central Athens. 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/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015 file photo, the veteran leftist politician and candidate with the newly-formed left-wing Popular Unity party Manolis Glezos acknowledges the supporters during a pre-election rally, in central Athens. 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…

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.