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Cover: Before the German occupation, Greek museums prepared ancient artifacts for protection and hiding, such as this marble group of Aphrodite, Pan, and Eros covered in plaster at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.
Greece, II. He is in pursuit of historical artifacts stolen from the country during the years of its occupation by the Nazis during World War II. The five-part work “The Past in Sheckles”, written by Vassilios Petrakos, Secretary General of The Archaeological Society at Athens, from Greece II. It traces historical artifacts stolen during World War II.
According to the news of The New York Times, when the Nazis invaded Greece in 1941, German army general Julius Ringel took an active part in the excavations carried out on the island of Crete, which has traces of the Minoan civilization that lived 3,000 years ago. While he bought some of the vases, ceramics and many historical artifacts unearthed in these excavations for himself with the help of his soldiers, he sent some of them to German museums as war booty.
The New York Times
