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TWO RARE COPIES of Mein Kampf signed by the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler went under the hammer for $64,850 (around €47,000) in Los Angeles yesterday, auctioneers said.
The two-volume set — a first edition and a second edition — of the future German Fuehrer’s political manifesto had been estimated to go for $20-25,000 in a sale organized by Nate D Sanders Auctions.
Eleven people bid for the volumes, both signed by Hitler and dedicated to Josef Bauer, an early Nazi party member and a leader of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch bid to overthrow the Bavarian government.
Hitler likely gave them to Bauer as Christmas gifts in 1925 and 1926, expressing best wishes for the holiday season, the auctioneers said.
They called the books “an ominously signed set of books that futilely warned the world of Hitler’s intentions,” adding they were more rare in that they were dedicated to a fellow Nazi leader.
The young Hitler wrote Mein Kampf (“My Struggle”) in prison, setting out his political doctrine and blaming Germany’s woes on an array of groups including Jews and Marxists.
After Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, millions of copies were published. As of 1936, the Nazi state gave a copy to all newlyweds as a gift.
Thursday’s auction also sold a leather jacket owned by Albert Speer, Hitler’s chief architect and minister for armaments and war, which fetched $10,068.
After the war, the jacket was seized by an Allied soldier named Ralph, who wrote in a letter to his mother in May, 1945: “Looked around today in a huge chalet of a high-ranking Nazi.
“For you I have a gold necklace. And for Dad, I have a great leather jacket…I took a coat with no Nazi symbols on the outside. Unfortunately, the name of Nazi Albert Speer is stamped in the jacket…”
I don’t see the problem here. I support same sex marriage 100% but it it a free country. This means we all have freedom of speech. There are no wrong opinions. It’s the priest’s choice and rights to express his point of view. He doesn’t have to conform to main stream ideology.
@Tommy Chen: it is the opinion of most people that this priest is an asshat of the highest order.
@Tommy Chen:
Yes, it is a free country etc where people can hold whatever opinions they wish, however, from someone in his position within a community to be inciting such hatred so openly, it only takes one radical Christian lunatic to interpret that message in a particular way and then next we’ll have beatings and killings of homosexuals because “it’s a sin”.
As if the Catholic Church is so sacrosanct in the first place too. It’s been a hotbed of sin over the years with child abuse, mother and baby laundries, illegal adoption, beatings etc . So not only could the priests particular ideologies be interpreted in a particular way, it’s also incredibly hypocritical for him to be condemning something while representing an organisation that has done so much worse.
@Darren Anthony Corr: there’s people in every religion and every profession that did evil thongs to children. This man is entitled to his opinion. Who said anything about hatred only you .
@Jim Casey: things
@Tommy Chen:
Free speech is fine, using your position/platform to express your opinions unbeknownst to your audience….not so ok, which is why so many walked out of the church.
@Jim Casey:
The article in question is relating to comments made by a catholic priest, my comment was in relation to that. Whataboutery isn’t going to work here, it also adds nothing concrete just backs up my point really.
Nice try though.
@Tommy Chen: I agree.
I don’t agree with him at all, but I applaud his conviction to stand over his outdated views, despite the backlash he has brought on himself.
Sinful?
It’s the 21st century. No one believes that stuff any more.
He was only reading out the rule book, problem is they don’t want you quoting the rule book back to them cause it’s bad for PR
I don’t really understand the outrage. Those are the teachings of the Catholic Church. He’s a Catholic priest. If people don’t agree with those ridiculous, outdated beliefs they shouldn’t be part of a club that requires them to hold those beliefs
@Derek Walsh Ⓥ: spreading hate he was , even the powers that be in the Catholic Church are pulling away from that kinda behaviour
Why all the outrage. It’s not the Catholic Church’s job to agree with the prevailing ideology. Their job is to preach Catholic teachings and beliefs. That’s what this priest was doing. That’s what I would want to hear if I went to mass.
@Declan Dalton: the church should practice what they are preaching!!!
Not!!
The same guy put his support behind a sexual offender instead of the victim, He’s a hateful little man and shouldn’t be given the limelight he’s getting to spew his nonsense.
Odd, so many people disgusted with his comments, but still keep signing their kids up to the club. He is only reciting the long held views of his club, especially the leaders of it.
Yes, it is hateful, but you are happy enough to follow them so your kids can get a lovely day out whilst parents flash the largesse.
Hypocrisy on all sides.
He can take his backwards views and opinions and do one. People like that are a relic of the past and that’s where they belong in the past.
It used to be married couples who were told everything they did between the sheets was a sin. Now it’s same sex couples getting the “it’s a sin” treatment. I wish they’d just leave consenting adults to do as they please and concentrate their wrath on the real evil of sexual predators who prey on innocent children and shout about how sinful that is from the pulpit.
Selective reading and selective interpretation of the bible is the seed for disturbing individuals.
If the church has rules I think that’s fair enough and you either decide to follow the rules or not! But I think that it’s hilarious that the church can’t respect their own rules! Same-sex couples can’t marry in a church but heterosexual couples who are not allowed to have sex before marriage can get married in a church and even bring along their kids as proof that they did indeed have sex and have them even participate in the ceremony as flower girls etc. The church are a joke.
No mention of child sex abuse being a sin.
You’d be worried by those lads who think they have a direct line…..
He should be sacked from his job…
A belief system is something you can be almost be garanteed to be wrong about, unless it is backed up with an evidence based system.
Is sex with oneself a sin ?
Only because its been reported do I know about the comments and I care less about it if I never heard about it
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