Sydney auction house under fire for selling 'sinister, grotesque' Nazi memorabilia

A Sydney auction house is under fire as it moves to sell a range of Nazi-era memorabilia - accused of putting profit over decency in the wake of recent far-right motivated attacks

On Monday, Jewish advocacy group the Anti-Defamation Commission called on Vickers & Hoad to"choose decency over profit" and"immediately withdraw these grisly items from their shelves".In a statement sent to SBS News, the organisation's chairman Dvir Abramovich said,"such auctions violate the memory of the victims, hurt the survivors and dishonour the enormous sacrifices made by the diggers who fought to defeat the Third Reich".

"I also call on the state and federal governments to criminalise the sale of these objects, which belong in museums, so as to stamp out this grotesque and sinister practice," Dr Abramovich said. "I'm not having second thoughts at all ... No one is going to dictate to me what I can and can't do within the legal confines of Australian law," director Colin Vickers told SBS News on Monday.

But doesn't the left accuse the right of being Nazis? So why are the right attacking themselves. Oh that's right the Nazis were considered left at the time

I agree, profiting from these items is discussing

All proceeds should go towards funding Holocaust survivor stories.

Ostrich mentality. It's history, you can't erase it. Some Digger probably brought this home as loot - it belongs in a museum so we all see and understand what happened, not try to hide from it.

Like it or hate it it's our history... people need to calm the fuck down...if you don't like it don't buy it!

Indeed 'diggers' fought Hitlers Third Reich, but it wasn't so that minority groups could attach faux argument to a collection of items those same diggers often took themselves as souvenirs; which cannot be attributed any significant evil beyond that of any other souvenir of war.

Even Israel used tens of thousands of WW2 Nazi marked Mauser 98 rifles in their military after the war . Can’t erase history .

elliemail Someone should have spray painted it. Or thrown a match.

And just to think the NYT's appeased Hilter right up until 1939, and he was TIME's man of the year too.

We fought a war to get rid of that shit ..

Wow! Is this auction house a media outlet? Look at the media being all upset while the media itself makes money by covering school shootings with 506 ads every 5 minutes.

Capitalism 101 = Profit at any cost

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