The Germans wanted to make money from “remembrances from camps”. Emergency decision of the auction house

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The publicity of the case by the media and the outrages that flowed from the Polish Presidential Palace, as well as the intervention of the Ministry of abroad Affairs, caused the German auction home to cancel a scandalous auction, on Monday the auction was to be held with objects connected with the victims of German crimes during planet War II.

The bidding was to be organised on Monday by the Felzmann Auction home in Neuss. During the auction, they wanted to sale items related to the victims of the German genocide – the bidding was entitled "The panic strategy part II 1933-1945".

Information about shocking events was made public by Polish media. News reached the Presidential Palace very quickly, which immediately reacted.

"The president of Poland, Karol Nawrocki, expects the Polish government to ask for a refund, he yet bought all the memorabilia from the victims of German crimes in Polish lands, and the cost of this task was added to the general reparation account!", wrote the spokesperson for the president of Poland Rafał Leśkiewicz in social media.

"German faults have never been settled, the effects of which we inactive feel today. The president will consistently request reparations for German crimes committed in Poland during planet War II!"

Sikorski confirms: the scandalous action of the German auction home will not take place

Then the government reacted. The head of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Marta Cienkowska condemned the auction, stating that "the memory of the victims cannot be treated as a commodity". "This auction must be cancelled, and the items displayed should go where they belong – to institutions that respectfully and attentively address the memory of victims of Nazi crimes," wrote the Minister of Culture on social media.

The Ministry of abroad Affairs took over very quickly. Deputy Prime Minister Radosław Sikorski reported that he had contacted the auction with his counterpart in West Germany Johann Wadeph. "We agreed to prevent specified a stumbling."

On Sunday afternoon, Sikorski reported that the items to be bid on Monday were missing from the auction home website. "Ambassador Jan Tombiński, who had intervened with the authorities of Westphalia for respective days, informed me that all the artifacts had already disappeared from the website of the scandalous auction", the chief of diplomacy said.

Source: polsantews.pl