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Hitler’s trousers, Goering’s cyanide enclosure sole during auction
- Updated: June 20, 2016
German “Fuehrer” Adolf Hitler is shown in this undated record design . PHOTO: FILE
BERLIN: Trousers with leather pockets worn by Adolf Hitler and a coronet enclosure that hold a cyanide used by a tip emissary to dedicate self-murder were among a trove of Nazi memorabilia sole for hundreds of thousands of euros during an auction in Germany.
The sale of equipment from a collection of an American medical officer who attended to a needs of defendants during a Nuremberg War Crimes Trials was cursed by Germany’s Jewish village as “scandalous” and “disgusting”.
The auctioneer did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
German media pronounced one Argentine bidder spent over 600,000 euros ($681,060) alone during Hermann Historica’s weekend auction in Munich, gnawing adult Hitler’s trousers and troops jacket, and an flier watch that belonged to Hermann Goering, a beefy Nazi atmosphere force commander, among other things.
The trousers sole for 62,000 euros, a coupler – done from “finely-woven field-grey cloth” – went for 275,000 euros, the watch for 42,000 euros and some silk underwear owned by Goering for 3,000 euros, according to mass-circulation daily Bild.
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Other equipment underneath a produce enclosed a coronet container for a hydrogen cyanide phial that Goering swallowed while awaiting hearing in Nuremberg in 1946, that fetched 26,000 euros, and Hitler’s medical X-rays after a unsuccessful assassination attempt in Jul 1944, Hermann Historica pronounced on a website.
It pronounced a pockets of Hitler’s black trousers were leather lined “so he could lift a gun unobtrusively with him”.
The Central Council of Jews denounced a auction in the run-up to a sale and had called on Hermann Historica to cancel the event.
The auctioneer pronounced on a website that it procured objects of contemporary German story usually underneath despotic conditions for museums, repository and critical collectors to assistance enable understanding and safeguard a events of a Nazi epoch never recur.
Bild pronounced on Monday 169 equipment had been sole from the collection of medical officer John K Lattimer, who died in 2007.
The bidder from Argentina told Bild he was purchasing the objects for a museum whose name he did not disclose.