Affiliated Auction Galleries announces the sale of Heinrich Himmler's Third Reich Gold & Red Velvet Tapestry in its December military & firearm catalog auction. This rare U.S. 101st airborne war capture piece is an original one-of-a-kind museum quality German WWII antiquity. As provenanced in "World War II German War Booty" Volume II by Ltc Thomas M Johnson. Page 66. This piece hung in the Reichstag, but was relocated to Himmler's residence after the fire which destroyed a similar piece. The 7x9 feet tapestry was seized from Reichsführer-SS's residence in Berchtesgaden in 1945 by a member of the 506th Parachute Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division.


Himmler’s WWII Third Reich Reichstag Gold Tapestry Captured 101st Airborne Hits The Auction Block

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Interesting piece of history, must admit. And will be sold for a fortune,I guess.

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I find it interesting that it states who took it but now who currently owns it.

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I am not sure I would want to own anything from Heinrich Himmler. It would send a chill down my back to even touch anything that he touched.

I only hopes it ends up in the hands of a museum or something similar and not in the hands of Neo Nazi's bent on shrining everything created by those they idolize so heavily.

I doubt any dorko neo nazi will have enough funds to even think of bidding for it. Also, they aren't the types contacted by auction houses and especially for things like this. My only associations with auction houses like Sothebys, Butterfield and Butterfield and two others-was because some collector deemed it something necessary to tell them about an ultra rare German Sniper Rifle I owned and still do-but never consulted me about permission to do so. I've never had any intentions of ever selling my rifle. To date, i've been offered enough money to buy a nice new car paid in full.

Anyway, my point to this is that auctions like these-are not generally known to the average scumbag nazi wannabe.

Though I am not a rich collector by any imagination, I was contacted in advance of a few auctions, to see if I wanted to buy what they offered. The last time that happened was when General Hoyt Vanderbilts (SP?) entire estate came up for sale. Last I heard, someone paid near 2 million dollars for his estate-in order to keep those seller-bastards-from splitting the stuff up to make a bigger profit.

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.