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Greece’s antiquities during WWII

An article by Kostas Paschalidis, The buried statues of war about the fate of Greece’s antiquities during WWII.

Pictures:

1st and 3rd row: The flag of the 3rd Reich at the Acropolis. The efforts of the National Archaeological Museum to safely store the antiquities under the ground- the 2nd picture in the 1st row is from similar efforts at the site of Delphi at the beginning of the war.

2nd row: Nazi officials looting antiquites.

4th row: British troopers were housed in the old Museum of the Acropolis. The “ally” forces also mistreated (even bombed) a number of monuments and artifacts in the aftermath of the Nazi Occupation in Greece. They were not hunting down Nazis, but Greek communists.

5th row: Archaeologists retrieve the antiquities hidden at the crypts of Acropolis after the cessation of the Nazi Occupation.