US EditionGreece will seek to obtain Nazi execution photos offered for sale online
The Greek Culture Ministry aims to secure rare photos of 200 communist prisoners executed by Nazis in 1944 to preserve national heritage, pending authenticity verification.
- On Monday, Greece's Culture Ministry said it will try to obtain photographs that allegedly show the final moments of 200 Greeks executed by a Nazi firing squad, after the images appeared for sale on Saturday by a collector in Belgium of German military memorabilia.
- No photographers had previously documented the events, and the images allegedly depict men led to their deaths at the Kaisariani shooting range on May 1, 1944, making them historically significant.
- Ministry experts have already reached out and will visit the collector in Ghent, Belgium, to examine the photo series showing men led through a gateway and lined up before a wall.
- A Culture Ministry committee will meet Wednesday to decide heritage classification, and the ministry said it would finalize legal acquisition procedures if the images are authenticated despite legal complications to lay claim.
- Shortly after the listing, a memorial at the Kaisariani site was vandalized and plaques listing victims' names were smashed, while local caretakers and municipal authorities promised to repair the monument.
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Greece moves to secure rare photos of Nazi execution in Athens
Greek authorities are seeking to secure a set of rare photographs believed to show the final moments of 200 Greek prisoners executed by Nazi forces in Athens during World War II, after the images unexpectedly appeared for sale online. The photographs, posted on eBay by a Belgian collector, are thought to depict the execution of 200 communist political prisoners on May 1, 1944, at the Kaisariani shooting range. While the massacre is one of the mo…
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