Stratos Dordanas
Associate Professor of History in the Department of History and Archaeology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Stratos Dordanas is Associate Professor of History in the Department of History and Archaeology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He specializes in political-diplomatic and social history, the study of wars and civil conflicts, with particular reference to the two World Wars.
He is the author of the following studies, among others: Greeks against Greeks: The World of the Security Battalions in Occupied Thessaloniki, 1941–1944 (Thessaloniki: Epikentro, 2006); The Blood of the Innocent: Reprisals by the German Occupation Authorities in Macedonia, 1941–1944 (Athens: Estia, 2007); The German Uniform in Mothballs: Survivals of Collaborationism in Macedonia, 1945–1974 (Athens: Estia, 2011); The Paid Agents: German Propaganda in Greece during the First World War (Athens: Alexandria, 2021); and The German “Lawrence of Arabia” and the Jihad “Made in Germany”: From Max von Oppenheim to the Swastika, 1914–1945 (Athens: Alexandria, 2024).
His co-authored works include, indicatively: Stratos N. Dordanas and Vaios Kalogrias, The Lives of Others: The Stasi and the Greek Political Refugees in East Germany, 1949–1989 (Thessaloniki: Epikentro, 2020).