Check the listing for details. Greece WW2 King George ll stamps 1946. Listed at 2.99 USD. George II, King of the Hellenes (20 July 1890 – 1 April 1947) ruled Greece from 1922 to 1924 and from 1935 to 1947. The Greeks mounted a successful defense and eventually occupied the southern half of Albania, but when the Germans invaded from Bulgaria on 6 April 1941 the Greeks and the British Expeditionary Force were overrun, and mainland Greece occupied.