'Twisted and grotesque' auction sees Hitler's personal belongings including a $29,000 cigar box and $19,000 hairbrush sold to bidders in Australia

  • Eight items previously owned by Hitler sold at an auction in Perth on Sunday
  • JB Military Antiques sold a cigar box for $29,000 and hairbrush for $19,000
  • Hitler's tableware collection, white metal hand mirror and gravy boat were sold
  • Sale of Hitler's items was condemned as it took place a week before Anzac Day A $29,000 cigar box and $19,000 hairbrush are among several items that were previously owned by Hitler and sold at a controversial auction in Australia.  

    Eight items belonging to the former dictator of Nazi Germany were sold under the hammer by JB Military Antiques at Morley, in Perth's north-east, on Sunday.

    The auction was slammed by campaigners as a 'cruel celebration' of Hitler's regime and as 'spitting on the grave' of brave diggers, as they called for the sale of Nazi memorabilia to be banned.Among the items sold was a white metal hand mirror that went for $15,000, a gravy boat that was sold for $11,500 and a metal boot brush that fetched $13,000.

    His tableware collection went for $25,000, a cast-iron wall plaque of Hitler sold for $1,300 and a fork that belonged to Eva Braun, Hitler's mistress, was sold for $3,800.

    A $29,000 cigar box (pictured) and $19,000 hairbrush are among several items that were previously owned by Hitler and sold at an auction in Australia - but the auction house copped heavy criticism for the 'perverse and twisted sale'

    A $29,000 cigar box (pictured) and $19,000 hairbrush are among several items that were previously owned by Hitler and sold at an auction in Australia - but the auction house copped heavy criticism for the 'perverse and twisted sale'

    A hairbrush with the Nazi coat of arms and Hitler's initials 'AH' was sold for $19,000 during the auction

    A hairbrush with the Nazi coat of arms and Hitler's initials 'AH' was sold for $19,000 during the auction 

    Each item was emblazoned with the Nazi coat of arms and Hitler's initials 'AH'.

    JB Military Antiques copped heavy criticism for hosting the auction a week out from Anzac Day.

    Anti-Defamation Commission chairman Dvir Abramovich condemned the sale of Hitler's items and called a 'celebration of his cruel regime of mass murder and torture'. 

    'If Hitler was alive today, he would be thanking JB Military Antiques and applauding their lurid trade, delighted that his legacy is being mainstreamed and promoted in Australia,' he said.


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