Goering's underwear sold for what?!
 

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lif...?intcmp=hplnws

I can't even fathom what one of Hitler's Lugers or daggers would sell for?! Lastly, like who would want Goering's "silk underwear". :confused: That is creepy. The article is brief so I cut and pasted it: :)

"A man from Argentina shelled out more than $676,000 this weekend at an auction selling the personal belongings of Adolf Hitler and his deputy, Hermann Goering.

The man, who remained anonymous, spent $312,000 alone on what is believed to be one of Hitler's last uniform jackets.

According to Reuters, the mystery buyer showed up at the Hermann Historica's auction in Germany dressed in dark clothes and wearing a baseball cap.

Other items auctioned were a pair of Hitler’s pants with leather pockets, X-rays after his assassination attempt in 1944, and the brass container from where Goering swallowed cyanide while awaiting trial in Nuremberg.

The Argentinian bidder also paid $47,500 for an aviator watch that belonged to Goering, as well as some if his silk underwear for $3,400.

The controversial auction, titled “Hitler and the Nazi grandees – a look into the abyss of evil,” was closed to the press, but the German tabloid Bild sent an undercover reporter to the event, Reuters said.

The collection of 169 items auctioned over the weekend belonged to late John K. Lattimer, a U.S. army doctor who was general medical officer during the Nuremberg trials.

The Argentinian buyer took 56 of the 169 items, for which he paid a total of approximately $676,000.

According to The Guardian, when the Bild reporter asked him who he was, the bidder declined to give his name and only said he came from Argentina.

He used the number "888," Reuters said, evoking the neo-Nazi code "88" that marks the eighth letter of the alphabet and stands for the banned greeting "Heil Hitler."

The Guardian also reported that the Central Council of Jews in Germany filed a motion last week in an attempt to cancel the auction, saying it was “scandalous and disgusting” to make money from Nazi relics."

That's... weird. And kind of creepy.

Likely a fair amount of ex-Nazi money and not a few relatives in Argentina; so the auction and prices don't exactly surprise me.

Wasn't it Bill Snyder/Snyder's Treasures that's been trying to sell Eva Braun's panties?

Edit - Yep. I remembered correctly: http://snyderstreasures.com/pages/lingerie.htm

I saw one of her dresses on display at the Tank Museum in Danville, VA. Here's a pic I took.

Perhaps there is enough DNA left on the clothes to clone them ;)

Anyway, the auction / bidding numbers are assigned to buyers by Hermann-Historica themselves, so I doubt that this Argentinian buyer had any influence on getting that number.

I used to visit a fantastic gun store in Buenos Aires that had an entire case of Nazi presentation pistols. Several of them named to notable people such as the head of Hitler's personal bodyguard and the gauleiters of several important German cities. The front window featured over 200 fine, excellent condition Lugers of all descriptions, along with several cased Borchards. Many, many fine German small arms made their way to Argentina after the war.

AAAAHHHGG!!!!

I'm alright now.


AAAAHHHGG!!!!

No. I lied. :D

I believe many of them arrived there way before the war. There was plenty of German immigration to Argentine (and South Brazil) from middle XIX century on. And wherever Germans went Vaterland went with them.

Surely they did enough damage to the World, so no need to clone those people... :nono: