Illustration of an auction.

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MARTIN BUREAU / AFP

The sale was scheduled for Tuesday, February 16.

It was finally canceled narrowly, following the intervention of CRIF, representative council of Jewish institutions in France.

Items from the Third Reich, including Luftwaffe helmets, a fascist dagger or other utensils bearing a Nazi symbol, which were to be auctioned off, were eventually removed.

This is what the Bremens Belleville auction house indicated at the dawn of the weekend, confirming information from Le

Point

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Even if all the items offered did not include Nazi insignia, the sellers "wished to withdraw all of their German lots," said the establishment, responsible for organizing the auction.

Alert launcher

David-Olivier Kaminski, the lawyer for the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (informed by a whistleblower who spotted the objects) said he had contacted the Lyon public prosecutor's office last Wednesday about the imminent sale.

"He was very responsive," said the lawyer.

And the auctioneer made a wise decision in removing these items from the sale.

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“The societal question now arises as to whether a clearer and more explicit law should not be adopted for this type of sale of objects from the Nazi era,” concluded the lawyer.

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Justice

Aveyron: A bust of Hitler and various Nazi objects removed from an auction by justice

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