Overview
- North Rhine–Westphalia officials said the auction house informed state chancellery chief Nathanael Liminski by phone that the sale was canceled.
- Felzmann had advertised “Das System des Terrors Vol. II 1933–1945” with more than 600 lots, including prisoner letters, Gestapo files, a Buchenwald Jewish star, and an anti-Jewish poster, before removing the catalogue.
- The International Auschwitz Committee condemned the plan as “cynical and shameless,” and the Fritz-Bauer-Institut said such records must go to public archives and memorials rather than the market.
- Polish foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski said he coordinated with German foreign minister Johann Wadephul to stop the sale, and Poland seeks transfer of the materials to the Auschwitz memorial.
- German and Polish diplomatic actors welcomed the cancellation and urged clarification of the episode, transfer to appropriate memorial custody, and safeguards to prevent similar auctions.