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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The Museum of the Holocaust in Argentina’s capital has taken custody of the largest collection of Nazi artifacts discovered in the country’s history.
Federal police and Interpol agents found the more than 70 Nazi objects hidden behind a bookcase in a collector’s home north of Buenos Aires in June 2017.
They include busts of Adolf Hitler, an instrument to measure people’s heads to supposedly determine their racial purity and statues of the Nazi eagle with a swastika under its talons.
Owning Nazi objects in Argentina can be illegal if it is determined the items incite racial or religious hate.
Museum President Marcelo Mindlin said Wednesday the items will be part of an exhibit “transmitting democratic values, education and the fight for memory so tragedies like the Holocaust are not repeated.”
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