Minutes later, we joined 30 or so older white men and a few women who were noting the lot numbers they wanted to bid on once the auction began. We stepped through a metal door and walked down a wooden staircase into a high-ceilinged basement room. We parked our car at the back end of a small industrial park near GloucesterвЂ™s border with Manchester-by-the-Sea. At a time when anti-Semitic and other hate crimes are on the rise, we thought the event needed documenting. Rows of folding chairs in the middle of the room were ringed by tables and shelves jammed with Nazi memorabilia.ДЄt first, we decided not to go to the auction, then, half an hour later, we changed our minds. The two cataclysmic events are connected: When Hitler was asked how he expected to get away with the extermination of EuropeвЂ™s Jews, his response was, вЂњWho, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?' I have spent the last few years working on a memoir about growing up in a family traumatized by the first genocide of the 20th century, the murder of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire, including my grandmotherвЂ™s parents. Naomi is Jewish some of her family members were murdered in the Holocaust. You donвЂ™t need a personal connection to World War II or the Holocaust to be disgusted, but we both had such connections. Instead of seascapes or antique maps, she saw dozens and dozens of Nazi items, including photos of Hitler. On the afternoon of the auction, my wife, Naomi Schalit, went to the auctioneerвЂ™s website to see if there would be anything for sale that interested us. This 2013 photo shows Nazi-related memorabilia hanging on a wall at Soldatenkaffe restaurant in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. Nothing stood out, but the owner suggested we come to an estate auction he was having in December. How did we find ourselves in an auction of Nazi memorabilia just days before Christmas?ДЄ few weeks earlier, we had stopped in a local collectibles shop thinking we might find a painting to hang in our new home in Gloucester, on BostonвЂ™s North Shore. But my wife and I had just returned from such an auction, down the road from our house. A lot of people are afraid the whole Nazi thing has been forgotten.вЂќ The Post quoted Terry Kovel, one of the countryвЂ™s best known experts on antiques, saying, вЂњThe market for historic Nazi memorabilia is definitely growing. Artifacts - photos of Hitler, rings, armbands displaying a swastika - are being sold at auction for thousands of dollars.В The Washington Post reported HitlerвЂ™s telephone, from his bunker, being sold at auction for $243,000, for example. I recently read about the rise in the sale of Nazi memorabilia. (Claus Dalsborg/AP) This article is more than 2 years old. Denmark's largest online sale website DBA, has removed Nazi-themed items from its store, including 12 Christmas baubles, bought in Lithuania by Danish man Claus Dalsborg who wanted to sell them for 10,000 kroner (U.S. In this undated photo Christmas baubles bearing Nazi insignia are displayed.

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