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A number of items belonging to a trove of Nazi memorabilia , including Adolf Hitler's trousers with leather pockets and a brass container that held Hermann Goering’s cyanide, were sold at Hermann Historica’s auction, Reuters reported.

It is noted that 169 items had been sold from the collection of medical officer John K. Lattimer, who worked at the Nuremberg trial of Nazi war criminals in 1946. Lattimer died in 2007.

It is reported that an Argentine buyer spent more than $ 681,000 alone at Hermann Historica's auction, snapping up Hitler's trousers and military jacket, and an aviator watch that belonged to Hermann Goering. The buyer said that acquired the items for the museum, the name of which he did not mentioned.

German tabloid Bild specifies that Hitler's black trousers with leather pockets for carrying a gun, were sold for € 62,000, the jacket - made from "finely-woven field-grey cloth" - went for €275,000, the watch for €42,000.

Other items under the hammer included the brass container for the hydrogen cyanide phial that Goering swallowed while awaiting trial in Nuremberg in 1946, which fetched € 26,000, and Hitler's medical X-rays after a failed assassination attempt in July 1944.

Germany's Jewish community  condemned holding the auction, calling it “scandalous” and “disgusting”. The community also demanded from Hermann Historica to abandon holding an auction.

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