Walter Schimana argued that Germany needed an auxiliary force to relieve the burden. As such, German authorities increased the scope and amount of military supplies given to the Security Battalions. ELAS's growth alarmed many conservative Greek officers, including royalists, who flocked to the Security Battalions as a way of defending the "bourgeois world".

Service and atrocities

The primary role of the Security Battalions was to participate in counterinsurgency

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