One day before International Holocaust Remembrance Day, new photographs of Adolf Hitler surfaced in Britain and his silverware is going on display in New York. One of the color photographs showed Hitler's lavish, meticulously furnished Berlin office. Another revealed a dining area in the dictator's apartment, located above his office in the German capital. The new collection of photographs also showed Hitler in Berghoff, his private estate near the town of Berchtesgaden, in the province of Bavaria. In New York, meanwhile, a knife and fork bearing the initials "A" and "H," for Adolf Hitler, which for 66 years lay unseen, will be put on display by the New York Historical Society, The New York Times reported Thursday. The historical society is including Hitler's flatware, part of a dinner service made in celebration of his 50th birthday in 1939, in an exhibition of 150 of the most aesthetically and historically compelling pieces in its collection, according to the historical society's website. The exhibition, Stories in Sterling, is scheduled to open on May 2 at the societys recently renovated headquarters at 170 Central Park West and West 77th Street. While some voiced support for the decision to display the silverware, Deborah Dwork, a professor of Holocaust history at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., and the director of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies there, told The New York Times she objected.
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Yet another photo depicted tables covered in flower arrangements. The photographs were taken by Hitler's private photographer, Hugo Jaeger, and published in the British Daily Mail on Wednesday.
I find this totally tasteless, she said. I believe the inclusion is solely for sensational purposes, that the knife and fork have nothing to do with why Hitler was heinous, why he is infamous. They have nothing to do with the evil of which he was the architect. The knife and fork trivialize the evil that Hitler and his allies perpetrated.
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A day in the life of evil - flower arrangements, a knife and a fork
Daily Mail publishes number of never-before-seen photographs of Hitler and his home and office • Pictures, taken by Hitler's private photographer, reveal extravagant lifestyle • Meanwhile, Hitler's engraved silverware to go on display in New York.