Overview
- Greece’s Culture Ministry says the 12 images are highly likely to be genuine and has set a committee meeting on Wednesday to consider heritage classification.
- Ministry experts are coordinating a visit to Ghent to examine the photographs and review their legal provenance with the Belgian collector.
- The collector halted the eBay listing and signaled openness to talks, while asserting his legal ownership, according to published reports.
- Officials and historians say the pictures may have been taken by Guenther Heysing of Goebbels’s propaganda unit, with Greek media reporting a link to a German officer’s personal album.
- Political figures and relatives are urging state acquisition after the Kaisariani memorial was vandalized, and the Communist Party says tentative identifications of some victims have begun.