Pulping books and rewriting history

How are historical myths constructed and imposed? By silencing and concealing facts, even by destroying documents and testimonies. Occasionally, even by pulping books. In 1973, the Army History Directorate (AHD) finally published the book "The Liberation of Greece and the Subsequent Events (July 1944-December 1945)," which had been in preparation since the 1960s. When I looked for it, 25 years ago, I learned that it had been withdrawn and pulped when center-left PASOK was in power, and the late Akis Tsochatzopoulos was minister of national defense. Did he himself give the order or was it an overzealous subordinate? Whatever the case, there was not a single copy in the AHD library, as I was told when I asked to read it. Not one.

Only in totalitarian regimes does the complete elimination of memory require that there be no traces left, even in the state archives...