German auction house Auktionshaus Felzmann has cancelled a planned sale of more than 600 Holocaust-era artefacts after intense criticism from survivor groups, Jewish organisations and foreign governments.

The auction, titled “The System of Terror” , had been scheduled to take place in Neuss, near Düsseldorf, and included concentration-camp letters, Gestapo index cards and other Nazi-era documents naming specific victims and prisoners. The Associated Press (AP) first reported the cancellation, citing confirmation from Polish officials.

The controversy intensified over the weekend after Poland’s Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said on the social-media platform X that he had taken up the matter directly with Germany’s Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul. Sikorski wrote that both leaders “

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