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The Military History Museum in Dresden
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The Dresden public prosecutor is investigating a 51-year-old man who is said to have sold several documents to the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden that allegedly date from the Nazi era.
After the investigation by an expert from the State Criminal Police Office in Saxony, the police and the public prosecutor assume that at least 24 of them are fakes.
Deutschlandfunk first reported on the case.
The accused sold the documents in 2015 and 2016. Among other things, there are several alleged letters from the Hitler assassin Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg from the years 1942 and 1943.
It is not yet clear whether the man forged the documents himself or hired a third party to do so.
As part of the investigation, the police conducted a house search in Neubrandenburg, during which they seized six old typewriters, old ink, stamp ink, old paper, a laptop and a mobile phone.
According to the police, the museum bought the documents for 14,900 euros.
The investigations are ongoing.
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