Apostolos Santas

Apostolos Santas (Greek: Απόστολος Σάντας; 22 February 1922 – 30 April 2011), commonly known as Lakis, was a Greek veteran of the Resistance against the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II, most notable for his participation, along with Manolis Glezos, in the taking down of the German flag from the Acropolis on 30 May 1941.

Apostolos Santas was born in 1922 in Patra, while his roots were from the Ionian island of Lefkada.

[citation needed] The Germans responded by sentencing Glezos and Santas to death in absentia.

[1][2] In 1942, he joined the fledgling National Liberation Front (EAM), and a year later the guerrilla force ELAS, with which he participated in several battles against the Axis troops throughout Central Greece.

[3] After the Occupation, because of his leftist beliefs, he was sent into internal exile to Ikaria in 1946, then to Psyttaleia in 1947 and finally to the Makronisos island in 1948.