Background
Paparrodou was born in Lamia, central Greece.
Paparrodou was born in Lamia, central Greece.
At 1923 he graduated from the Evelpidon Military Academy as a Second Lieutenant of the Artillery.
After the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War, October 28, 1940, and the successful penetration of the Greek Army deep into Albanian territory, he served as commander of the 21B Mountain Artillery Corps positioned in Pogradec, southern Albania. Because of this experience, Paparrodou became the commander of the first Alpine Battalion of the Greek Army. At the following battle he resisted against the numerically superior German forces and died on April 13.
In April 1941, when Nazi Germany attacked Greece from the Greek-Bulgarian border, Paparrodou was ordered to defend strategic positions at the Kleisoura pass, near Kastoria, Western Macedonia.