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Greece acquires long-lost photos of Nazis’ May Day executions
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Nearly 300 photographs from the Second World War show the execution of 200 Greek communists by the Nazis, a harrowing testimony of history Greece has officially acquired photographs
Greece has acquired a collection of Nazi photographs from a collector in Evergem. An agreement had already been reached between the government and the man. Now the photos have actually been transferred. It is unclear whether a financial deal was also reached. The images depict executions from 1944 in an Athens suburb, when 200 people were killed. The collector had put some of the photos up for sale, which caused a huge uproar.
These photos would show “the last moments” of 200 Greek communists executed by the Nazis in the Athenian district of Kaisariani on May 1, 1944.
The ministry now has 262 photographs, 16 documents and 4 old banknotes, which the Belgian collector had put up for sale online two weeks ago.
“The transfer of ownership of the photographic collection, from which the photographs of the executed in Kaisariani came, has been completed,” Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said in a statement on Saturday morning. Culture Minister Lina Mendoni announced today the completion of the transfer of the historical photographic collection depicting the execution of 200 Greek resistance fighters at the Kaisariani Shooting Range on May Day 1944. “The phot…
'The transfer of ownership of the photographic collection... is completed', said Minister Lina Mendoni in a...
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