Greek Film Clip from Nikos Koundouros' "1922",

"One of the keenest impressions which I brought away with me from Smyrna was a feeling of shame that I belonged to the human race."
US. Consul at Smyrna, George Horton

The Smyrna affair...has been somehow soft-pedaled and almost expunged from the memory of present day man."
Henry Miller

It's because of the truth of the Henry Miller statement that I commemorate Symrna & it victims by highlighting the 1978 Greek film by Nikos Koundouros called "1922", which tries to give some idea of what happened to it's Greek & Armenian population. No fictional film can convey the real horrors of what really happen there.

Due to many requests for more clips from this film, I've uploaded this early scene which occurs just after some surviving Greeks from Smyrna (Armenians having been killed on the spot), were forced to embark on one of the infamous Death Marches. Here they stop at the first watering-hole, and what happens here is just a prelude to what it to come.

Historical accounts from those who witnessed, or in rare cases, survived these Death Marches, both Greek & Armenians, confirm that the people who didn't die from either from thirst/hunger/exhaustion, were slowly picked-off by being robbed, raped and murdered. These crimes were not only committed by the regular Turkish soldiers, but also by any Irregular, bandit/criminal, who happened to pass by. The Irregular/Bandit is this scene just chooses to kill a complete stranger to him, in order to satisfy his depraved bloodlust.

I may upload another scene or two, but I would recommend people to seek out the film. I believe it's still available to buy, and since it was recently given away as a promotion with a newspaper, I have seen it being sold very cheaply on Ebay.

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• Smyrna
• Izmir
• Asia
• Minor
• 1922
• Greek
• Greece
• Armenian
• Genocide
• Hellas
• Hellenic

[mackyv]

For those who wish to find a copy please check on Ebay, as I have often seen it being sold, and at a very cheap price also !

[saltadoros08]

tourkika zoa

[IanHunedoara8]

Scariest video I've seen. Especially with the screaming homicidal fanatic.

[Nickname997]

@Arvanitarius write ethnic map asia minor 1911 in google image.

that will explain easy, but ofcourse that map isnt 100% reliable

[Nickname997]

@Arvanitarius 25 % is the total of all christian. Greeks were 10% of anatolia, rest armenians others.

there were cities and villages were greeks were majorities but they were like little islands. and in the total pop(together with surrounding villages and cities) there were less than 30%

[Nickname997]

Before pop exchange in 1924.

There were 2 groups living who spoke greek and were muslim

1. A group of muslims in east Black sea region.

2. refugees of greece and crete

nobody else spoke greek.

There was also a group karamanli who lived in central anatolia they spoke turkish but were christian all of them were sent to greece.

[Nickname997]

@Arvanitarius I do not refer only to 1927censes, census in 1910 ,1870, and ottoman tax registers in 1520!!! show clearly that christians were a small minority, all european travellers who visited these regions throughout the ages said that greeks were a minority. But forget thinking anatolia was majority greek.

What todays is northern greece (macedonia region) was not even majority greek.

only 25-30%

[Arvanitarius]

At those particular regions, ethnic and native Greeks were not just 25% of the population, and neither were they minority settlers to their towns and villages. They were much more than that, and they were a native ethnic element too. At least, most of them at that time. And, they were not all of them greek-speaking and rum-orthodox, like you suggest.

[Arvanitarius]

You 'd never call turkish the Greek-byzantine Romioi, or either those who 'd speak Roumtza & Pontic, those who your race had once called Romjun, Romaei, Roman'es, Romani, Aromani, Armanii, Armouni, Armenoi, Arnavout, Arnaoutas, Arvanitae, Arbanitas, Arbanatas, Arbeneshe, Arbereshe and so on. Most of, you forget to mention although they had also native and ancient or either medieval (i.e. Rum-byzantine) Greek origins too. I dont know about you, but I certainly can't call all of them ''Turk''._

[Arvanitarius]

Plus there were the moslem Greeks and the children of mixed marriages, like there is the history of the poorest of Ottoman subjects who got islamicized from even before. And, even before them there were the many more greek-speaking communities of a greek-speaking Byzantine Empire and the manier Rum-orthodox Greek-byzantine majority population of which you forget.

[Arvanitarius]

@Nickname997 I need to remind you that most of Greek refugees coming from whatever today you might be calling Turkey were turkophones or bilingual, and not just greek-speaking like you re suggesting there. That also proves that native ethnic Greeks were a much stronger 'minority' then at that particular country which now you claim only for yourself. The 'Asia Minor' of the Ottomans did not resemble to a Turkey of the Generals of a much later time, of which you re talking about and have in mind.

[Arvanitarius]

@Nickname997

You refer to a Turkish Sensus of 1927 and from then on. I refer to much earlier population Sensuses and to most official Ottoman Government data from prior to 1910. You should keep that on mind. And, even a 25% strong Christian population of which you refer to weren't a non-significant fact. But, even according to your data Anatolia is a much wider region than just Smyrna, Aidinio, Constantinoble & Pontus, plus the land from our coasts to EskiShekhir, Kioutacheia, AfionKarahisar..

[Nickname997]

@Arvanitarius When Greek army invaded Anatolia in 1918.

80% of the people who lived in West Anatolia were

TURKISH speaking and MUSLIM who NEVER wanted to live under the RULE of 20% of the population who were GREEK speaking and CHRISTIAN.

So the Turkish speaking muslims population of Anatolia has NOTHING to do with Greece and never wants to be part of Greece.

It is their own country.