Greece’s Culture Ministry has unveiled a newly acquired archive of World War II photographs, including rare images documenting the execution of 200 Greek communist prisoners by Nazi forces in Athens in 1944. Known as the Heuer Collection, the archive includes 262 photographs, 16 documents and four historical banknotes from the period of the German occupation of Greece. Thirteen of the photographs are linked to the execution at the Kaisariani firing range on May 1, 1944. The prisoners were executed by German occupation forces in retaliation for the killing of a German general by Greek resistance fighters. The event became one...
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