In Occupation Diary, Alex Matthews at 93, recounts his role in the largely unknown Guerilla resistance in the struggle against the horrors of Nazi Occupation of Greece that lead up to the first Greek Civil war–the first cold war conflict of the post-war period and the first use of the American “containment policies.” Using excerpts and images from his war dairies, family photographs, and other archival materials intercut with the sites of struggle in the present, Matthews recounts to his daughter, what he witnessed 75 years earlier.  In this intimate portrait, he is still trying to comprehend the devastation, violence he encountered, as a young man, as well as defending the ethics of some of his actions that lead up to leaving his beloved Greece forever.