File photo of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler at a ceremony in Lower Saxony, Germany, in 1938. Photo: AP File photo of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler at a ceremony in Lower Saxony, Germany, in 1938. Photo: AP
File photo of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler at a ceremony in Lower Saxony, Germany, in 1938. Photo: AP

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German auctioneer defends Nazi sale, including premium copy of Hitler’s Mein Kampf

  • Among the 842 Nazi items going under the hammer are Hitler’s top hat and a luxury edition of his manifesto Mein Kampf
  • Hermann Historica acknowledges it’s almost impossible to filter out bidders with ‘wrong’ ideologies, but says it has strict controls over the sale process

Topic |   Germany
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Updated: 6:59pm, 16 Nov, 2019

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File photo of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler at a ceremony in Lower Saxony, Germany, in 1938. Photo: AP File photo of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler at a ceremony in Lower Saxony, Germany, in 1938. Photo: AP
File photo of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler at a ceremony in Lower Saxony, Germany, in 1938. Photo: AP
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