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Greece will seek to obtain Nazi execution photos offered for sale online
Greece's Culture Ministry is assessing legal ownership and heritage status of WWII photos showing 200 executed Greek communists, first known visual record of the event.
- 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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A Belgian collector has caused a heated controversy in Greece after auctioning unpublished photos of the execution of 200 resistance fighters in 1944....
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The probability of their authenticity is considered high - There are several legal obstacles to their acquisition
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