Businessman bought Nazi items auctioned in Germany and donated them to Jews
A Swiss real estate tycoon from Lebanon stated that he had bought Adolf Hitler's cylinder and other Nazi memorabilia from a German auction to keep them out of neo-Nazi hands and agreed to donate them to a Jewish group. Writes about it ABC News.
Abdullah Chatila, a Lebanese Christian who has lived in Switzerland for decades, paid about 660 000 dollars for items at an auction in Munich, intending to destroy them after reading negative comments in Jewish groups.
"I wanted to make sure these things didn't fall into the wrong hands, that's the wrong side of the story, so I decided to buy them," he said.
However, shortly before the auction, he decided that it would be more appropriate to donate them to a Jewish organization. To do this, I contacted the Appeal Group “Keren Haysod - United Israel”.
Silver Plated Hitler's Edition Mein Kampf.typewriter used by dictator's secretary, other items Chatila will never see, because they will be sent directly to the group.
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“I don’t have any direct interest, I just thought it was the right thing to do,” he said.
Keren Haysod said that although a final decision on what to do with these items has not yet been made, they are likely to be sent to the Israeli memorial Yad Vashem, which already has several Nazi artifacts.
The European Jewish Association, which led the campaign against the auction, is grateful to Chatila for such an act.
“Such a conscience, such an act of selfless generosity to do something about which you feel strongly is tantamount to finding a precious diamond in the Everest of coal,” EJA head Rabbi Menachem Margolin wrote in a letter to Chatila.
“You have shown the world an example to follow when it comes to this dark and disgusting trade in Nazi trinkets,” the letter reads.
As ForumDaily wrote earlier:
- 21 November in Germany auction began, on which the personal belongings of the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler will be sold and his wife Eva Brown. This provoked a sharp protest from the European Jewish Association.
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