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Greece will seek to obtain Nazi execution photos offered for sale online
Greece's Culture Ministry is assessing the authenticity and legal status of WWII photos showing 200 communist prisoners executed by Nazis, with experts visiting Belgium to secure them.
- 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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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…
Photos of the alleged execution of some 200 Greeks in Athens during World War II have surfaced at an online auction. The May 1, 1944, shooting of communist political prisoners is considered one of the most brutal massacres perpetrated by the Nazis in Greece. Although the event is widely known in Greece, it was previously unknown whether any footage had been taken. The photos were posted on eBay this weekend by a Belgian collector of German milit…
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