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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Mostafa Rachwani

Australian politicians bought Nazi artefacts, auction house director claims

Lot 219 in the auction, Pictures From The Life Of The Fuhrer, sold for $280.
Lot 219 in the auction, Pictures From The Life Of The Fuhrer, sold for $280. The director of Danielle Elizabeth Auctions has said politicians were among the buyers of items in the sale. Photograph: Danielle Elizabeth Auctions

An Australian auction house that sold an extensive collection of Nazi artefacts online has defended the sale by stating politicians were among the buyers.

Jewish groups are outraged at the sale of the “blood-stained items” that included signed pictures of Hitler, Himmler and Rommel, a striped concentration camp cap, a “Jewish winter overcoat” with yellow star attached, picture albums of dead soldiers and PoWs and personal photo albums of SS officers.

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