A body marker from a Nazi concentration camp was removed from an auction in Los Angeles after complaints from a Jewish group. Los Angeles County removed the item from Dachau from a public-estate auction following complaints from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which was alerted to the item by a woman who saw it listed on an auction Web site.
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