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  "title": "“Rejected by the German Embassy”: The Directorate-General for Press and Radio under the Greek collaborationist governments and film censorship during the Occupation of Greece by the Axis powers (1941-1944)",
  "publisher": "Filmicon: Journal of Greek Film Studies",
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      "statement": "A legal decree issued by the Tsolakoglou government on May 8, 1941, transferred press review authority to a new Directorate-General for Press and Radio under the government's president.",
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      "title": "Greece: collaborationist government creates a Directorate-General for Press and Radio to review films and publications before release"
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