(19 Nov 1999) English/Nat
A rare collection of military memorabilia once owned by Reich Marshall Hermann Goering was unveiled in Los Angeles Thursday.
The artefacts, valued at nearly three (m) million U-S dollars, were confiscated from a convicted drug dealer and will be sent to the Army History museum in Washington DC.
The Holocaust museum will also examine the collection.
Memories of a painful past.
A collection of rare artefacts, including items like this Luftwaffe uniform, belonged to Gestapo founder, Reich Marshall Hermann Goering.
U-S government officials say this sword was a wedding present to Goering from Hitler.
The blade, they say was Napoleon Bonaparte's, stolen by the Nazis from a museum during their occupation of France.
The collection was confiscated from a convicted Los Angeles drug dealer and is valued at nearly three (m) million U-S dollars.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"This is a stunning collection of memorabilia from Nazi Germany. It is chilling in many ways to look at this and see what the Luftwaffe jacket represents, see the items that were cherished by the number two man underneath Hitler."
SUPER CAPTION: Thom Mrozek, U.S. Attorney's spokesman
When Drug Enforcement Agency officers raided the convicted drug dealer's home, this is what they found.
Officials say he was a collector of war memorabilia, not a Nazi nor a white supremacist.
The collection is bound for the Army History museum in Washington.
The artefacts will also be made available to the Holocaust Museum for research and scholarship.
Goering poisoned himself in 1946 after the Nuremburg trials evading execution for his part in Nazi atrocities
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