A Belgian collector who put up a series of World War II photographs showing the final moments of 200 Greeks executed by a Nazi firing squad for online auction has signed a preliminary agreement with the Greek Culture Ministry.
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And how you can tooInspired by Picasso, an AP photographer visualizes a blind person ‘seeing’ artVonn, Shiffrin and Brignone among the Olympic skiers voicing concern over receding glaciers‘I lost a lot of hope’: Nevada pays $100K to woman convicted for miscarriage under 1911 lawColorectal cancer is rising in younger adults. Here's who is most at risk and symptoms to watch forMark Zuckerberg quizzed on kids' Instagram use in social media trialThe kimono gets a vibrant remake in JapanCatholics return to confession focused on grace, not a get-out-of-hell-free cardAranceles pagados por empresas medianas de EEUU se triplicaron en 2025, dice JPMorganChaseA man walks through a memorial site at the Kaisariani Shooting Range in the Kaisariani suburb of Athens, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026, where 200 Greek communist political prisoners were executed by Nazi forces on May 1, 1944. The execution wall at the Kaisariani Shooting Range in the Kaisariani suburb of Athens, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026, where 200 Greek communist political prisoners were executed by Nazi forces on May 1, 1944. Two red roses are placed on the execution wall at the Kaisariani Shooting Range in the Kaisariani suburb of Athens, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026, where 200 Greek communist political prisoners were executed by Nazi forces on May 1, 1944. A man with a child walk past a vandalised memorial plaque at the Kaisariani Shooting Range in the Kaisariani suburb of Athens, where part of a black marble monument bearing the names of 200 Greek communist political prisoners executed by Nazi forces in 1944 was smashed, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. A man walks through a memorial site at the Kaisariani Shooting Range in the Kaisariani suburb of Athens, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026, where 200 Greek communist political prisoners were executed by Nazi forces on May 1, 1944. A man walks through a memorial site at the Kaisariani Shooting Range in the Kaisariani suburb of Athens, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026, where 200 Greek communist political prisoners were executed by Nazi forces on May 1, 1944. The execution wall at the Kaisariani Shooting Range in the Kaisariani suburb of Athens, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026, where 200 Greek communist political prisoners were executed by Nazi forces on May 1, 1944. The execution wall at the Kaisariani Shooting Range in the Kaisariani suburb of Athens, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026, where 200 Greek communist political prisoners were executed by Nazi forces on May 1, 1944. Two red roses are placed on the execution wall at the Kaisariani Shooting Range in the Kaisariani suburb of Athens, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026, where 200 Greek communist political prisoners were executed by Nazi forces on May 1, 1944. Two red roses are placed on the execution wall at the Kaisariani Shooting Range in the Kaisariani suburb of Athens, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026, where 200 Greek communist political prisoners were executed by Nazi forces on May 1, 1944. A man with a child walk past a vandalised memorial plaque at the Kaisariani Shooting Range in the Kaisariani suburb of Athens, where part of a black marble monument bearing the names of 200 Greek communist political prisoners executed by Nazi forces in 1944 was smashed, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. A man with a child walk past a vandalised memorial plaque at the Kaisariani Shooting Range in the Kaisariani suburb of Athens, where part of a black marble monument bearing the names of 200 Greek communist political prisoners executed by Nazi forces in 1944 was smashed, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. showing the final moments of 200 Greeks executed by a Nazi firing squad signed a preliminary agreement with Greece on Friday and has withdrawn the photos from sale, Greece’s Culture Ministry said.Culture Minister Lina Mendoni announced the preliminary agreement after experts visited the collector, Tim de Craene, in Belgium on Friday and verified that the photos were genuine. She did not provide details of the agreement or specify how Greece will obtain the photos. Twelve pictures showing 200 political prisoners being led to their deaths on May 1, 1944 appeared for sale on eBay on Saturday. They are the only photographic evidence that has come to light of an execution that was a seminal moment in Greece’s World War II history. The execution took place at a shooting range in the Kaisariani suburb of Athens. The photographs show men being led through a gateway and down a path, several looking directly at the camera as they walk. Another shows them lined up in front of a wall. Experts sent by the culture ministry to Belgium to examine the photos found they were part of a much larger collection of images taken by Wehrmacht Lieutenant Hermann Heuer while he was stationed in Greece in 1943-44 during the Nazi occupation of the country. They determined the entire collection of 262 photos, as well as some documents included with the pictures, was genuine.Shortly after the photos were posted for sale, a memorial at the site in Kaisariani to those killed was vandalized, with plaques listing their names smashed. “Historical memory will not be erased, no matter how much it bothers some people,” Kaisariani municipality said in a statement, adding that it would repair the monument. The photos, it said, had caused “a chill of emotion for the heroic, valiant stance of the 200 communist heroes who stood up against the firing squad.”Becatoros oversees coverage of southeast Europe for The Associated Press, with frequent assignments to the Middle East and Afghanistan. Based in Athens, Greece, she has worked around the world, including covering war in the Balkans, Iraq, Afghanistan and Ukraine.
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