"Many of the objects dating from 1933 to 1945 up for sale under the title "System of Terror Vol II" contained the names and personal information about the persecuted. "For victims of Nazi persecution and Holocaust survivors, this auction is a cynical and shameless undertaking that leaves them outraged and speechless", Christoph Heubner, the executive-vice president of International Auschwitz Committee said in a statement. "They should be displayed in museums or memorial exhibitions and not degraded to mere commodities.""
""Something like this is simply not appropriate, and it must be clear that we have an ethical obligation to the victims to prevent such things," Germany's Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said. He also called for a complete ban on the commercial sale of such items in Germany."
""It's insufferable, but it's not a criminal offense to even consider such a despicable act. No criminal law in the world could prevent that," Gischke told DW. "When our foreign minister says, for understandable reasons, that all of this must be banned, that's all well and good, but what exactly do you want to ban? Do you want to ban every letter written between 1933 and 1945?""
An auction at the Felzmann auction house in Neuss listed Nazi-era objects from 1933–1945, including Dachau sterilization documents, Gestapo index cards, a Polish Jewish survivor's notebooks and Buchenwald Stars of David, under the title "System of Terror Vol II" and was cancelled after public outcry. Many items contained victims' names and personal data. Survivors' groups and officials condemned the sale as degrading and demanded museum preservation. Germany's foreign minister urged a ban on commercial sales, while legal experts warned that a blanket prohibition would be legally unworkable.
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