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A surgical kit said to belong to a Nazi war criminal who oversaw a labor camp is being put up for auction in Britain.
Neatly laid out in a velvet-lined box these surgical instruments look sinister enough. But the true extent of their horrific past is given away by a tiny clue: engraved upon some of the items is the name of Nazi war criminal Anton Burger.
A major in the SS and commandant of the Theresienstadt concentration camp, he was responsible for sending tens of thousands of Jews to their deaths.
And yet, these items are not destined for public display to educate the next generation about the horrors of World War Two but are instead heading to auction.
Burger, who is thought not to have had any medical training, is believed to have used the tools to carry out appalling experiments on prisoners.
The instruments - which have a guide price of £2 000 - will be sold by Villa Hall Auctions, in Bude, Cornwall, on behalf of the widow of a Jewish man whose parents survived the Holocaust. The vendor does not know how her late husband came to own the box.
The auction house said it hoped a museum would bid for the tools. Burger was sentenced to death after the war but fled and lived under an assumed name, eventually dying in Germany in 1991, aged 80. - Daily Mail
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