00:01A rare photographic archive from the Nazi occupation of Greece is now in the possession of the Greek state.
00:07The material, known as the Hoyer collection, contains 226 photographs from the Second World War.
00:15Among them are images from the final moments of 200 Greek communists
00:20who were executed by Nazi forces in Athens on May 1, 1944.
00:25The photographs were taken by German Wehrmacht officer Hermann Hoyer who served in Greece between 1943 and 1944.
00:35The images show prisoners being transported by a truck from a prison camp and arriving at the firing range of
00:41Greek capital.
00:42Some photographs capture moments shortly before the execution. Others show the moments that shots were fired and the aftermath.
00:50The existence of the archive became known recently when it emerged that a collector was attempting to sell the photographs
00:58online.
00:59Greece's cultural ministry purchased the collection for about 100.000 euros in order to prevent the material from entering the
01:08international market.
01:11Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a social media post that the collection is a unique record of Nazi
01:19brutality.
01:20It has already begun to deal with the collaboration with the legislation that is provided and that is required for
01:28the newspapers.
01:50The archive also includes photographs from the daily life of the German officer in Occupied Athens, as well as images
01:58from the United States.
01:59The archive was published from his personal life in Germany.
02:02The archive was published by this spreadsheet from the elite Mamax.
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