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Greece Purchases Photos Taken by Nazi Soldier Who Documented Athens Atrocity

PetaPixel·@MattGrowcoot·2 months ago
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Greece has acquired a photo archive that documents the execution of 200 communist prisoners at the hands of the Nazis in Athens. The photos were taken by German Wehrmacht soldier Herman Heuer, who was stationed in Greece between 1943 and 1944. The country was occupied by the Axis powers from June 1941 to 1945. According to Euronews, the photo archive surfaced last month when the Belgian owner attempted to sell it online. Greece’s Culture Ministry paid €100,000 ($116,000) for it. “Greece has already, for a few days, owned the Heuer collection with photographic documents from the execution of Greek patriots in Kaisariani. A unique document of Nazi atrocity, which at the same time captures the greatness of our people’s struggles against fascism,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis writes on Facebook. In May 1944, 200 communists were executed by machine gun fire in retaliation for a fatal attack on a German general by Greek resistance forces.…

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