ByADAM POGRUND, TRAINEE REPORTER
Published:15:04 GMT, 17 February 2026|Updated:16:41 GMT, 17 February 2026
A previously unseen series of photographs have emerged showing the final moments of Greek prisoners before they were murdered by the Nazis.
The 12 pictures appear to show the last seconds before 200 Greek communists were executed on May 1, 1944, in retaliation for the killing of a Nazi general and his staff by Communist guerilla fighters a few days earlier.
Haunting images show groups of men lining up against a wall as they are shepherded by their Nazi occupiers to a shooting range in the Kaisariani suburb of Athens.
Guenther Heysing, a journalist attached to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels's unit, is 'highly likely' to have taken the pictures.
Another image shows men being marched into the shooting range, after discarding their overcoats outside.
Although the executions were well known, there has been no known photographic documentation of the event until now.
The images were listed for auction on Ebay on Saturday by a collector of Third Reich memorabilia. They are said to have originally come from the personal album of German Lieutenant Hermann Heuer, Greek media has reported.
The Greek Ministry of Culture said it is 'highly likely that these are authentic photographs'.
Source: Drudge Report
