Nazi memorabilia, some already attracting bids, is being offered for sale through a local online auction – a move the Jewish Federation of Cleveland’s board chair Jeffrey J. Wild condemned as “abhorrent.”
Solon-based Beachwood Auctions LLC’s online auction features several items from the Nazi regime, such as plaques and portraits portraying Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking SS officers, Third Reich army daggers and pieces of military uniform, like boots, tunics, helmets and visor hats, range in estimated selling prices from a $100 to a German Waffen SS Panzer Officer Hiterjugend Div. Panzer Uniform Jacket, which the site lists an estimated price up to $20,000 on.
“Any attempt to glorify Nazis or minimize, deny, or equivocate the Holocaust is abhorrent and fuels the anti-Jewish hatred that persists in our society today,” Wild said in a statement sent to the Cleveland Jewish News. “Artifacts associated with the Nazi regime belong in museums, where they can be used to educate against hate.”…