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del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 10:37 20/10/2007 Nazi vase surrendered to authorities after public plea By The Associated Press A vase that was a gift to Adolf Hitler was turned over to United States investigators, who are rounding up a collection of Nazi artifacts stolen from a Utah storage unit in 2005, authorities said Friday. The vase was one of five items stolen in that burglary. Three other items were confiscated this week from an antiques dealer, who had been approached by a man who wanted to sell them. The items apparently were taken from Hitler's Eagle's Nest mountain home in the Bavarian Alps by an American soldier during World War II. The soldier's son found the collection after his father died and put everything in storage. Advertisement The vase was recovered Thursday, a few hours after sheriff's detectives unveiled other pieces. Still missing: a bronze bust of Hitler. The green, ceramic vase is ringed with a band of swastikas and German accolades to Hitler, including for the chancellor. The vase also has the date 1933, the year the Nazis were elected and Hitler's reign began. It was turned in by a man who said he had received it from somebody else, now deceased. Detectives planned to interview the man to see if he knew anything about the 2005 burglary, Salt Lake County sheriff's Lt. Paul Jaroscak said. Sheriff's Detective Scott Van Wagoner said he received a call Friday about the bronze bust and hoped to have it recovered soon. A former prison inmate with white supremacist ties supplied a possible location. The collection also includes a scroll, an ornate parchment and an handbound history of Henry the Lion, the 12th century duke of Bavaria and Saxony. All are addressed to Hitler and were apparently gifts given to him when he came to power. A German history professor at the University of Utah doubts the documents have much financial value. "Priceless is a big exaggeration. ... He probably didn't even see most of these," Ronald Smelser said. "They probably piled up in a room," he added. Smelser said some of the documents likely bestowed honorary citizenship on Hitler, a common practice in German towns at the time. "There must have been hundreds of those. Germans tried to curry favor," he said, adding "It's unclear whether the soldier's son will get the items back." Van Wagoner said he has contacted the FBI to learn how to verify that the items were brought to the U.S. through the proper military channels. If the family can prove that the artifacts weren't smuggled in, they will be returned. The sheriff's office would also like to find the person who stole the items from the storage unit two years ago. Smelser said it's important to keep the pieces away from white supremacists who admire Hitler. "They're almost sacred objects to them," he said. More Jewish World news and features Bookmark to del.icio.us Administrative orphans Six Hebron children, whose parents were arrested, were left with their grandmother. Change the past Father of Jewish psychology suggests avoiding picking away at the scars of the past.   1.   nazi vase 06:42  |  avrumiye 20/10/07   2.   Wrong!! 09:24  |  Leah Ashley 20/10/07   3.   A useful history lesson of democracy 10:18  |  dovale 20/10/07   4.   Dovale: 12:32  |  Natallie Durson 20/10/07   5.   avrumiye: you said 20 million people died? not 6? 15:37  |  nobodysacred 20/10/07   6.   Leah, very true 15:53  |  Man 20/10/07   7.   # 3 Failure of democrats precedes tyrants 16:51  |  Frank 20/10/07   8.   natalie the nut 17:30  |  larry from maine 20/10/07   9.   Numbers 3 and 6 18:28  |  leon 20/10/07   10.   Given the logic of #2 and #5... 20:27  |  Avi 20/10/07   11.   THESE ITEMS SHOULD BE DESTROYED 21:08  |  lagunageno 20/10/07   12.   Natalie..is that what happened in Germany? 22:02  |  Avi 20/10/07   13.   #7 Avi 22:56  |  Leah Ashley 20/10/07   14.   Natallie Durson 01:48  |  dovale 21/10/07   15.   To Avi 01:57  |  dovale 21/10/07

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