He bought things from Hitler's day and gave them to Israel

According to the AP, Rivlin called Chatila's gesture “an act of mercy” and true “humanism”.

Chatila, a Lebanese Christian who has lived in Switzerland for decades, paid at a 600,000-euro auction in November in Munich for questioning the time of Nazi Germany, and initially aimed at destroying them after numerous Jewish organisations criticised the sale of items.

However, he decided right after that, that it would still be better to donate them to the Israeli memorial museum Yad Vast Holocaust.

Among the articles Chatila purchased were Adolf Hitler's hat, his secretary's writing machine, and a special publication of the book Main Kampfú.

He is the personification of evil for all, not just the bad for Jews, Christians, and evil for mankind. That's why it was important for me to come up to these things, “says Chatila.

President Rivlin thanked Chatila for the donation, saying his importance was extremely important at a time when neo-Naziism and efforts to deny the Holocaust were on the rise.

The AP adds that items purchased by Chatila are still at the auction house in Munich and are not known when they will be transferred to Israel.