{"id":373,"date":"2005-07-14T00:33:43","date_gmt":"2005-07-14T04:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/07\/14\/hitler-art-seller-doing-his-duty\/"},"modified":"2005-07-14T00:33:43","modified_gmt":"2005-07-14T04:33:43","slug":"hitler-art-seller-doing-his-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/07\/14\/hitler-art-seller-doing-his-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitler Art Seller Doing His Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a5588'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"353\">\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/dog1.jpg\" width=\"297\" height=\"283\" align=\"left\">MONTREAL (Reuters) &#8211; A Montreal auctioneer<br \/>\n        has put four sketches by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler up for sale, sparking<br \/>\n        outrage and condemnation in Canada&#8217;s Jewish community.<\/p>\n<p>      Iegor de Saint Hippolyte said Tuesday that the private auction, which also<br \/>\n      includes two Christmas messages from the Nazi leader, would take place<br \/>\n      on July 19 and last only for a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>      He said the current owner of the six pieces wishes to remain anonymous,<br \/>\n      and he declined to say how much he expected the sale to bring.Asked about<br \/>\n      the morality of selling articles by and from Hitler, he said: &quot;I am<br \/>\n      simply doing my duty, which is to transmit history to other people and<br \/>\n      to preserve objects that are important for humanity.&quot;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>We thought that &quot;just doing my duty&quot; line went<br \/>\n        out of style after Nuremburg.&nbsp;We hope our dear friend Heinrich<br \/>\n      sees this news, as we are sure he will appreciate the chance to expand his<br \/>\n      already extensive collection of Fascist and &quot;expropriated&quot; Art.&nbsp; <\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from <a href=\"http:\/\/reuters.excite.com\/\/article\/20050713\/2005-07-13T122223Z_01_N12542053_RTRIDST_0_ODD-CANADA-HITLER-DC.html\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL (Reuters) &#8211; A Montreal auctioneer has put four sketches by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler up for sale, sparking outrage and condemnation in Canada&#8217;s Jewish community. Iegor de Saint Hippolyte said Tuesday that the private auction, which also includes two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/07\/14\/hitler-art-seller-doing-his-duty\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}