Caption | German soldiers raising the German war flag over the Acropolis of Athens, Greece, May 1941 ww2dbase | ||||||||
Photographer | Scheerer | ||||||||
Source | ww2dbaseGerman Federal Archives | ||||||||
Identification Code | Bild 101I-164-0389-23A | ||||||||
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Photo Size | 581 x 796 pixels | ||||||||
Photos at Same Place | Athens, Greece | ||||||||
Added By | C. Peter Chen | ||||||||
Licensing | Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 Germany License (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE).
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