Hitler speeches sell at Munich auction despite objections

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

BERLIN (AP) — Handwritten speech notes by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler sold at auction in Munich on Friday despite concerns from Jewish groups they could encourage neo-Nazis.

The Hermann Historica auction house defended the sale of the manuscripts, all dated before the outbreak of World War II, saying they were of historical significance and belong preserved in a museum.

The documents all sold to anonymous bidders for well above their starting prices.

A nine-page manuscript by Hitler outlining his speech to new military officers in Berlin in 1939 about eight months before the beginning of World War II fetched the top price of 34,000 euros ($40,300).



FILE - An undated file picture shows the leader of the National Socialists Adolf Hitler, gesturing during a speech. A prominent European Jewish organization is criticizing a Munich auction house’s decision to sell several of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s handwritten speeches, saying it “defies logic, decency and humanity” to put them on the market(dpa via AP, file)


Read more: https://apnews.com/article/berlin-munich-946602c5298dc2cd84bccfae3b5c4e04

[melm00se]

1. "historical significance and belong preserved in a museum"

damn straight they do. Documents like this are priceless to historians. One does not write about history by obliterating some of the players.

[Miguelito Loveless]

2. Agreed.

That said, are they going into a museum, or (as the buyer was not revealed) some rich Nazi fetishist?

[ArizonaLib]

4. I imagine that if they are owned by anonymous/private individuals

Even if they go into museums initially, they can be pulled at anytime into private collection. The purchasers likely belong to the same social circles who have the resources to purchase black marketed endangered game for private collections. My own personal belief is that there is no historical significance to drafts of Hitler's speeches. Having those documents exist among the same human race that perpetrated atrocities on his behalf is dangerous, and nothing good can happen from their existence. Make a photocopy, burn the originals, and call it a day.

[bullwinkle428]

3. I wonder if he sent Eric over there to do his bidding?

[Harker]

5. Probably.

And when he said, "don't go over forty", he didn't mean forty thousand.

[sandensea]

11. And probably paid for with GOPee campaign funds

"Are you sure, daddy?"

"Shut up, Eric. Coronna Romney said it's ok."

[Harker]

12. He's had nothing but ill gotten gains. n/t

[sandensea]

14. Amazing how the courts have let him get away with it all these years

But then, he's always had friends in low places.

"I wanna be just like you when I'm older, Tony."

"You will, Donnie. Fughedabouit."

[raccoon]

6. Look at how he's gesturing! That has to be photoshopped.

BTW, do Germans “shoot the bird”? Or do they make a different gesture?

[Lars39]

8. He has his first 2 fingers up.

[raccoon]

13. Thanks, I see that when it's enlarged. Nt

[JohnnyRingo]

7. There's something wrong with anyone who wants these.

I can see Nazi war memorabilia, but personal effects of Hitler himself crosses a line from bad taste into mental health issues.

If these speeches are so historically significant, they should be donated to a museum as part of a Holocaust exhibit.

[Lars39]

9. I thought selling Nazi memorabilia was illegal in Germany.

[Tactical Peek]

10. Trump slept with Hitler's speeches at his bedside. Not many people know that.

Shhh - don't tell the American press.

A 1990 Vanity Fair article about billionaire businessman stated that Mr Trump’s then wife Ivana, said her husband owned a copy of “My New Order” – a printed collection of the Nazi leader’s speeches.

Marie Brenner, the article’s author, wrote: “Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, 'My New Order', which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-adolf-hitler-books-bedside-cabinet-ex-wife-ivana-trump-vanity-fair-1990-a7639041.html

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/10029453955

https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/share/e515a2cd-a51b-4f83-8d61-6ebb9a104e0a

[L.Pharmstrong]

15. Molly Ivins on Pat Buchanan's speech at 1992 GOP convention.

“Many people did not care for Pat Buchanan’s speech; it probably sounded better in the original German.”

http://theraucousrooster.com/2020/08/31/pat-buchanans-speech-sounded-better-in-the-original-german-molly-ivins-on-the-1992-g-o-p-convention/