Hitler papers to go on display in Los Angeles
LAP99062801 - 28 JUNE 1999 - LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA: Dr. Uri D. Herscher, President of the Skirlball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, looks over letters from his relatives pleading for help before the Nazi invasion of Austria during World War II. They all perished. The Nazi-era Nuremberg Laws, which were a critical step in initiating the Holocaust and are signed by Adolf Hitler, will go on display to the public, June 29 at the Skirball Cultural Center, a private museum in Los Angeles, as a permanent loan from the Huntington Library in Pasadena, Ca., where the paper's have been secretly kept since 1945. (bc-us-hitlerpapers) iw/jr/Jim Ruymen UPI
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