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A Bavarian auction house is going to auction off approximately 500 letters and other documents from Hitlers time in Landsberg prison in 1924. The minimum bid is set at 25,000 Euro. I wonder who will buy them and if there is some kind of vetting process to ensure that Neo-Nazis cannot buy them. This being Germany, I would bet there is some kind of criteria about who an eligible bidder is.
A Bavarian auction house is going to auction off approximately 500 letters and other documents from Hitlers time in Landsberg prison in 1924. The minimum bid is set at 25,000 Euro. I wonder who will buy them and if there is some kind of vetting process to ensure that Neo-Nazis cannot buy them. This being Germany, I would bet there is some kind of criteria about who an eligible bidder is.
I was going to say wouldn't it be illegal to own those documents in Germany unless you were the government or a museum or university?
No, it is not illegal to own Nazi documents, memorabilia, etc. It is illegal to publicly display them unless you are a museum or such though. I know a guy who bought an autographed copy of Mein Kampf at a flea market for 25 Euros, the seller did not know how much it was really worth. Germany is not quite as oppressive as many Americans seem to think.
