Thieves steal uncommon Nazi uniforms, weapons from Dutch museums

Revealed Oct 28, 2020 • 1 minute learn

Uncommon German weapons are displayed behind armoured glass on the Warmuseum Overloon in Overloon, Netherlands October 28, 2020. Photograph by Piroschka van de Wouw /REUTERS

AMSTERDAM — Thieves have stolen uncommon Nazi helmets, weapons and uniforms price greater than 1.5 million euros ($1.77 million) from two Dutch Second World Battle museums in latest months, a spokeswoman stated on Wednesday.

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The break-ins at a museum in Beek in August and Ossendrecht within the southern Netherlands two weeks in the past prompted a nationwide safety overview of Second World Battle museums, stated Janneke Kennis, who works at an analogous museum in Overloon.

“We don’t suppose they have been stolen to promote overtly on-line, as a result of the weapons are numbered and are so distinctive and uncommon that they might instantly be acknowledged,” Kennis stated.

The thieves have been properly ready and appeared to have taken gadgets ordered for personal collections, she stated.

“They most likely scouted the museums to see what they wanted to interrupt in, made an inventory and carried it out very professionally,” she stated.

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On the Eyewitness Battle Museum in Beek, a number of automobiles have been utilized in August to get away with essentially the most useful components of the gathering, estimated to be price round 1.5 million euros, after burglars pressured the gates and rammed the entrance door.

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Years within the making, the gathering of 150 costumed characters displayed in dioramas advised the story of a German parachutist named August Segel.

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On the Ossendrecht museum, thieves cleared out practically your complete assortment, together with tons of of hundreds of euros price of SS uniforms, daggers, helmets, emblems, caps, parachutes, firearms and binoculars.

The Overloon museum has since returned to their house owners numerous items that have been on mortgage, together with a one-of-a-kind record of 1,500 victims of the Auschwitz loss of life camp, as a result of they have been thought-about too useful to maintain on public show given the latest break-ins.

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