Anti-Semitic letter Wagner auctioned in Israel

jerusalem - A letter from the German composer Richard Wagner has yielded almost 28,000 euros at an auction in Jerusalem. The favorite composer of the German dictator Adolf Hitler was negative in the text about French and German Jews, reports the auction house.

The letter was supposedly meant for the French philosopher Édouard Schuré, said Meron Eren of auction house Kedem. The document from 1869 later came into the hands of an Israeli collector. Wagner died in Venice in 1883, more than six years before the birth of Hitler.

Eren recognizes that it is problematic to auction an anti-Semitic text in Israel. He thought that private collectors or war museums might be interested. The buyer's identity has not been disclosed.