The sale of two Nazi daggers at an auction in Christchurch has angered the New Zealand Jewish Council.
Watson's Specialist Auctions has the two knives, which are embossed with swastikas, for sale at auction on Wednesday evening.
Auctioneer Barry Watson says the daggers are historcially significant and are works of art.
But the head of the New Zealand Jewish Council Stephen Goodman says the sale of Nazi memorabilia is an insult to Holocaust survivors and their families and should be outlawed.
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Goodman says auction houses need to make their own moral decision whether to sell the memorabilia and says he supports Trade Me's move to ban Nazi items from its website.
