PARIS
Memorabilia belonging to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and air force chief Hermann Goering have been removed from a Paris auction house on Monday.
The Council of Voluntary Sales, which regulates French public sales, announced on Monday that the April 26 auction would no longer take place.
Earlier, Jewish groups such as the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF) called for its cancellation saying the auction was "obscene" and an "insult to the memory of the victims of Nazi barbarism."
French minister of Culture Aurelie Filippetti also demanded the cancellation. She described the decision as “necessary in the light of history and morality.”
Acccording to the Vermot de Pas house, which was to organize the auction, about 40 items, including Goering's passport, a monogrammed mat with a Nazi eagle belonging to Hitler and a wooden chest emblazoned with swastikas, given as a birthday gift to the Nazi leader, were to be sold.
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