{"id":7833,"date":"2025-11-16T23:28:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T00:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/?p=7833"},"modified":"2025-11-17T18:35:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:35:42","slug":"german-auction-of-nazi-death-camp-artifacts-canceled-after-outcry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/16\/german-auction-of-nazi-death-camp-artifacts-canceled-after-outcry\/","title":{"rendered":"German auction of Nazi death camp artifacts canceled after outcry"},"content":{"rendered":"

The items for sale included letters of Holocaust victims and Gestapo documents about the execution of Jews<\/strong><\/p>\n

An international outcry has forced a German auction house to cancel the sale of documents and items from World War II-era concentration camps.<\/p>\n

The Felzmann Auction House had planned to sell 623 items dating from 1933 to 1945 on Monday as part of an auction titled ‘System of Terror Vol. II’.<\/p>\n

According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the lots included postcards and letters from prisoners, a 1937 medical report on forced sterilizations in the Dachau concentration camp, and a Gestapo file about the execution of a Jewish man in the Mackeim ghetto in July 1942. An anti-Semitic propaganda poster and Star of David patches and armbands from the Buchenwald concentration camp were also listed in the catalogue.<\/p>\n

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The planned sale drew condemnation at home and abroad. Executive Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee Christoph Huebner called it “cynical and shameless,”<\/em> saying documents related to the Holocaust “should be displayed in museums or in exhibitions at memorial sites and not be degraded to objects of trade.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The Fritz Bauer Institute, a German research center that studies the Holocaust, said the sale of the documents “reflects a disregard for the personal rights of the victims and the legitimate interests of their descendants.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said Warsaw had pressured the authorities in North Rhine-Westphalia to call off the auction. On Sunday, he thanked his German counterpart, Johann Wadephul, “for the information that the offensive auction of Holocaust artifacts has now been canceled.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The items for sale included letters of Holocaust victims and Gestapo documents about the execution of Jews An international outcry has forced a German auction house to cancel the sale of documents and items from World War II-era concentration camps. The Felzmann Auction House had planned to sell 623 items…<\/p>\n

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