An auction house is facing a backlash for selling off hundreds of important Nazi records and artefacts.

More than 600 letters and files documenting crimes committed during the Holocaust are to be sold at ‘The System of Terror’ auction on Monday.

Holocaust survivors have called for the ‘cynical and shameless’ event at the Felzmann auction house in Neuss, Germany, to be cancelled.

The dealer, which is based just outside Dusseldorf and specialises in postcards, advertised 627 items, including Gestapo files and letters to loved ones by prisoners of concentration camps.

Lots for sale on Monday include a Gestapo card detailing the execution of a Jewish resident of the Mackheim ghetto, predicted to fetch 350 euros, and an eight-page pamphlet of a 1940 anti-Jewish propaganda film, for which bi

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