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Jewish group slams Australian billionaire for buying Hitler’s ‘Super Mercedes’
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Australia’s Anti-Defamation Commission is slamming local billionaire Clive Palmer as “perverse” after he reportedly bought a bulletproof Mercedes that used to belong to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
Australian media reported that mining magnate Palmer, who is also a Senate candidate, bought the vehicle from an unnamed Russian at a London auction for his vintage car collection.
The car, a Mercedes-Benz 770 Grosser Offener Tourenwagen — known as the Super Mercedes — is one of five used by Hitler that still exists, three of which are in private hands.
“I can’t get my head around this perversity,” says Dvir Abramovich, chairman of the Anti-Defamation Commission.
“I call on Clive Palmer to look into his heart and to think about the 1.5 million children slaughtered by Hitler’s Nazi regime and the six million Jews exterminated in the gas chambers. The Holocaust is over, but the dangerous ideology and culture that fuelled the extermination of millions endure in today’s Australia. The vehicle of this monster, the world’s biggest murderer of Jews, should not form part of any vintage car collection or a car museum.”
Abramovich called for the vehicle to be donated to an institution that educates about the Holocaust.
The Times of Israel Community.