A dagger supposedly once owned by Heinrich Himmler, the leader of Adolf Hitler’s SS security force that helped run Nazi concentration camps, is being sold through the 49-year-old Portland family ...

Instead, Lehnert said, the SS officer had a change of heart and presented the dagger to the pope as a sign of repentance. An image of the dagger was reproduced in the Corriere della Sera insert.

My father was a private first class in the 17th Airborne Division and made the parachute jump into Germany where he acquired an unusual semi- automatic pistol from a surrendering German SS officer ...

An Iron Cross medal that came with an official button pin from the Nazi party sold for £300. The SS dagger was sold for £220, the silverware was snapped up for £1,000 and the Nazi bunting for £50.