A gleaming binge of Adolf Hitler . Children ’s toys and musical instruments emblazoned with swastikas . A cock once used to measure person ’ heads as a way of gauging so - call " racial whiteness . " Police in Argentina find out these disturb Nazi relics , and dozens more like them , hidden inside a suburban household ’s secret room earlier this week . Together , they represent the largest group of original World War II – epoch artifacts ever discover in Argentina , accord toThe Washington Post .
As part of an investigation of suspicious artworks find at a Buenos Aires gallery , functionary call in an nameless collector ’s home in the nearby residential neck of the woods of Beccar . They discovered a wall hidden behind a bookcase , and then a door , which precede to a bedroom containing both Hitler - earned run average memorabilia and mummified animals and items from Egypt , Japan , and China , according to NPR .
Together , the room hold 75 Nazi artifacts , all of which likely belonged to richly - ranking German officials during World War II . At least one of the items — a magnify shabu — may have personally belong to Hitler himself , judge by accompanying pic negative that show Hitler holding the identical lens of the eye .
Perhaps most chillingly , the memory cache contained " national socialist object used by kids , but with the political party ’s propaganda , " Union constabulary commissioner Marcelo El HaibetoldThe New York Times . " There were jigsaw puzzles and trivial wood piece to build house , but they always have party - related images and symbolic representation . "
Nobody knows quite yet how the illegal artifact made their mode to Argentina , but they ’re still of " of great pursuit due to their historical value , " Argentina ’s Ministry of Securitynoted in a Facebook statement .
Once authorities have wrapped up their investigation , the Nazi relics will be leave to the Holocaust Museum of Buenos Aires , according toNewsweek . As for the collector , he or she is currently under investigating by a Union jurist .
They serve as a continuous reminder of a drear chapter in both Argentinian and humankind history .
" When I see these aim , I see the infamy of that terrible geological era of humanity that has caused so much damage , so much unhappiness , " Ariel Cohen Sabban , president of the Delegation of Israelite - Argentines Associations , toldThe New York Times .
[ h / tThe Washington Post ]
