Some relics from the Nazi era are to be auctioned off in the USA. These include absurdities such as Wehrmacht toilet paper, but also a gold watch said to have belonged to Adolf Hitler. Jewish organizations condemn the planned auction.
The Jewish umbrella organization European Jewish Association has called for the cancellation of an auction with legacies from the environment of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. “The sale of these items is despicable,” said EJC Chairman Rabbi Menachem Margolin in an open letter to the organizers of the Maryland auction.
According to him, among other things, a gold watch that should have belonged to Hitler was to be auctioned off. Parts of the auction are therefore also a candy bowl from the dictator, a terrier collar from his partner Eva Braun and toilet paper from the Wehrmacht. Nazi legacies may belong in museums, but certainly not under the hammer, emphasized Margolin.
The objects from the possession of the “genocide” Hitler that are now up for auction do not contribute in any way to learning from the atrocities of the Nazi era, he emphasized, referring to the estimated six million Jewish victims of the Nazi era. The letter was signed by more than 30 Jewish representatives from Europe and Israel, including the German-Israeli Society in Berlin.
