In 1947, in the early days of the Greek civil war, a camp was set up on Makronisos for the rehabilitation of political prisoners, communists and leftist EAMites, so that they would ‘recover’ and join the ranks of the National Republican Greek League. 　　The Makronisos camp was, in effect, a choice of the British, at the outset of the Cold War, as an experimental action against sim...