US EditionGreece will seek to obtain Nazi execution photos offered for sale online
Greece's Culture Ministry is pursuing 12 rare photos showing 200 communist political prisoners executed by Nazis in 1944, aiming to preserve them as national heritage.
- After the photographs appeared on eBay on Saturday, Greece's Ministry of Culture said Monday it will send experts to Ghent to examine them and will act to acquire if authenticity and lawful provenance are documented.
- Most of the 200 Greek Communists executed on May 1, 1944, had been arrested years earlier during anti-Communist raids by Ioannis Metaxas's police, the ministry said.
- The culture ministry said it is highly likely Guenther Heysing took the photos, which show the Kaisariani shooting range during executions, a major moment of the Greek resistance movement, according to historian Menelaos Haralambidis.
- The Greek Communist KKE party said it had tentatively identified at least two of the men in the photographs, calling the trove priceless and belonging to the Greek people.
- One image includes a message behind a photograph of a young daughter, illustrating personal traces in the wider occupation context, as Haralambidis said `this is the first time we have an image from inside the shooting range at the moment of the execution`.
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82 Years After Mass Execution, Photos Appear on eBay
Greece said Monday it will try to obtain photos that appear to show the final moments of 200 Greeks who were executed by a Nazi firing squad in Athens during World War II, after the previously unknown pictures appeared on an online sale site. The images that appeared on eBay...
Horrific 1944 Nazi massacre photos - never been seen before - go on sale on eBay - The Mirror
Photos of a 1944 Nazi massacre in Greece have emerged for first time - but their sale has sparked fury from some of Greece's leading political figures as they are offered up to buyers on eBay
In 1944, 200 Greeks were shot dead by the German occupying forces in the Athens suburb of Kaisariani. Images of the massacre may have been offered for sale online. Now the Greek government is taking action.
Greece Fights to Reclaim Historic Nazi Execution Photos Sold on Ebay
Over the weekend, a set of stark black-and-white images was put up for sale by a collector in Belgium on eBay. The photos are of 200 Greek communists being shot by a Nazi firing squad on May 1, 1944, in the suburb of Kaisariani in Athens. And Greece will attempt to get hold of the photos. The Ministry stated on Monday that there is a high probability that the photographs are real, and it will be seeking them as historical archives. Log into Fac…
Nazi execution photograph auction by Flemish collector upsets the Greeks
A photograph collector from the East Flemish city of Ghent has courted controversy in Greece after he put 200 unique photographs of the execution of Greek Second World War resistance fighter up for sale on the online auction site eBay. The Greek government is now trying to get hold of the images.
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