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Connecticut Auction House, Alexander Autographs, Says It Sold Josef Mengele Journals

NEW HAVEN (AP).- A Connecticut auction house says it has sold the journals written by Nazi death camp doctor Josef Mengele. The sale is drawing criticism from a leader of Holocaust survivors who says the business was profiting off the sale of one of the worst mass murderers in history. Alexander Autographs, of Stamford, sold the journals Thursday for nearly $300,000, said Bill Panagopulos, the company’s president. Alexander officials said the Jewish buyer wants to remain anonymous and is building a private collection for a museum. “I am outraged that Mr. Panagopulos and his outfit have profiteered off a sale of materials by one of history’s greatest mass murderers designed to enrich his heirs,” said Menachem Rosensaft, vice president of the American Gathering of Jewish