Backlash Forces German Auction House to Cancel Holocaust-Era Sale
The Felzmann Auction House had scheduled the auction of 623 items, spanning the years 1933 to 1945, for Monday under the heading ‘System of Terror Vol. II.’
According to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the collection included prisoner letters and postcards, a 1937 medical report documenting forced sterilizations at Dachau concentration camp, and a Gestapo dossier on the execution of a Jewish man in the Mackeim ghetto in July 1942.
The catalogue also featured an anti-Semitic propaganda poster, along with Star of David patches and armbands from Buchenwald concentration camp.
The proposed auction sparked widespread condemnation both domestically and internationally. Christoph Huebner, Executive Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee, denounced the sale as “cynical and shameless,” emphasizing that Holocaust-related documents “should be displayed in museums or in exhibitions at memorial sites and not be degraded to objects of trade.”
Similarly, the Fritz Bauer Institute, a German Holocaust research center, criticized the sale, stating it “reflects a disregard for the personal rights of the victims and the legitimate interests of their descendants.”
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