Hitler papers to go on display
LAP99062803 - 28 JUNE 1999 - LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA: General George S. Patton Jr., right presents Huntington Trustee Chairman Robert A. Millikan the packet contaning the original copies of the Nuremberg Laws June 11, 1945. 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. The package is marked with the wax seals of Germany's Third Reich. Patton and Millikan are standing before the portrait "George Washington Before Princeton," circa 1780 from the Huntington's American art collection. (bc-us-hitlerpapers) iw/jr/Huntington Library UPI
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