Cika wannan magana: Fascist Italiya
ya mamaye Girka daga Albania a ranar 28 ga Oktoba, 1940. Koyaya, mamayewar da sauri ya zama mummunan rauni ga Italiyanci kuma sojojin Girka sun sami damar kutsawa cikin yankin Albania. A ranar 6 ga Afrilu, 1941, Jamus ta kai wa Girka hari kuma sojojin Girka sun ja da baya cikin sauri a ƙarƙashin ƙarfin wuta mai ban mamaki na Blitzkrieg. Nan da nan bayan nasarar su, sojojin mamaye sun raba kasar zuwa yankuna 3 tsakanin wanda duk wani motsi na kaya da mutane ya haramta. Jamusawa sun mamaye wasu sassan Athens, yankin da ke kewaye da Thessaloniki, wasu 'yan cibiyoyi masu mahimmanci a cikin Aegean da tsibirin Crete,' yan Bulgarian sun mallaki yankunan arewacin Thrace da Gabashin Macedonia, yayin da Italiyanci ke sarrafa yawancin babban yankin da Tsibirin Ionian.