Hitler's socks and ties, Goering's boots and tuft from a noose used to hang a Nazi criminal among morbid items going under the hammer in Germany
-Clothing belonging to dictator among items being auctioned off in Munich
-Collection also includes underpants of Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goering
-Length of rope used to hang war criminal Julius Streicher [for publishing mean things about jews] also up for sale
-Hermann Historica auction house is to 'reject all Nazi and neo-Nazi buyers'
Adolf Hitler's socks and ties - along with the underpants of Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goering - are set to go under the hammer at auction.
Also being offered to collectors is a length of rope used to hang war criminal Julius Streicher at Nuremberg after the war.
The collection also features the secret phial that Goering used to hide cyanide in to cheat the executioner shortly before he was to mount the scaffold.
Dresses worn by Eva Braun, leather boots also owned by Goering, Hitler's dog-tax assessment form, his personal table crockery and manuscripts by S.S. overlord Heinrich Himmler, are also among the items present at one of the biggest sales of personal artefacts relating to the Nazi hierachy ever staged.
The sale will be held on June 16 at the Hermann Historica auction house in Munich - birthplace of Nazism.
The items come from the collection of American John K. Lattimer, a multi-talented man who once ran against Olympic champion Jesse Owens.
He went on to become a surgeon who treated Allied soldiers wounded on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day and later became a professor of urology in New York. He was a passionate collector of Nazi memorabilia until his death nine years ago.
According to media reports in Germany, his 30-room mansion in New Jersey was 'bursting at the seams' with artefacts linked to history's most evil regime.
They included the whacky and the grim. X-Rays of Hitler taken after the attempt on his life on July 20 1944 will go on sale for a minimum bid of £700, Goering's silk unmentioanbles - 45ins waist - have a reserve price of a little under £400.
The tuft of noose tied around the neck of Julius Streicher - perhaps Nazism's most squalid criminal, the man who ran the anti-Semitic paper Der Stuermer which conditioned Germans to despise the Jews - has an opening price of £400.
The catalogue for the auction is only available through personal orders from the auction house itself given the 'sensitive nature' of the material, according to the sellers.
Interested parties are told on the Hermann Historica website that they they must 'agree to comply with the legal requirements with application for your personal password' to view the material online.
It went on: 'The Hermann Historica is a prestigious, internationally renowned auction house for historic objects of all periods and countries. We are aware of the responsibility in particular for objects of German contemporary history and have always been committed to great care and prudence in dealing with them.'
The catalogue is entitled 'Hitler and the Nazi leaders - a look into the abyss of evil' and details every item for sale.
Other oddities include a piece of leather from a pocket of Hitler's trousers which allowed him to discretely carry a gun, the gavel of Robert Jackson, chief American prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials and letters from assassinated Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich.
Wolfgang Hermann, co-owner of the auction house, said: 'This collection allows museums and collectors to acquire highly interesting pieces relating to Nazism and WW2.
'We are completely aware of the disastrous German history between 1933 and 1945 and strictly reject all Nazi and neo-Nazi buyers.'
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