Emotions continued to run high in the country on Tuesday after the revelation of photographs showing 200 men, mostly jailed communist cadres and activists, herded to their execution on May 1, 1944, by Nazi troops only months before occupying Axis forces fled the country.

The emergence of the invaluable photographic material documents, for the first time, the war crime that took place at the Kaisariani shooting range in east Athens.

Demands for the acquisition of the photographs by the Greek state continued unabated.

Meanwhile, press reports on Tuesday stated that Belgian collector who tried to auction off the photographs via an internet platform is behind a lucrative business specializing exclusively in the sale of military documents and objects affiliated with the Nazi Third Reich. Reports point to an individual with a vast archive of such material, having sold approximately 47,000 items to date.

Political parties, trade unions, municipalities, academics and above all the relatives of those executed are calling on the Greek state to immediately acquire the historic photographs.

e EAM Resistance Museum in Kaisariani,” said Dimitris Kyriakoudis, a relative of one of the executed.

The execution of the 200 Greek prisoners in 1944 in Kaisariani, and the photographs that recently came to light, have rekindled memories deeply etched into the country’s collective consciousness from WWII and the occupation.