Joseph Goebbels love letters up for auction "It sums up the formative years of the number two man in the Third Reich, who was responsible for motivating the masses in Germany to back Hitler," Bill Panagopulos, the company's president, said. In my opinion, it shows how this rather simple, shy and love-struck college student really just became radicalised. The sale sparked concerns by a leader of a Holocaust survivors group who criticized the auction house's sale last year of the journals written by Nazi death camp doctor Josef Mengele. "Alexander Auction House is making a business out of selling Nazi artifacts and memorabilia," said Menachem Rosensaft, vice president of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants. They clearly have the legal right to profit here from such materials. I leave it to others to determine the morality of it all. Rosensaft said such materials belong in an archive for historians to study. He expressed concerns that at an auction of the materials could wind up in the wrong hands and be used as a shrine to the Nazi leader. The collection, which spans the period from Goebbels' childhood to shortly before he joined the Nazi party in 1924, is expected to sell for more than $200,000, Mr Panagopulos said. It includes more than 100 letters written between Goebbels and Anka Stalherm, the first great love of his life, and show his desire to control others, he said. Letters from other girlfriends include a pair of sisters he seduced at the same time. Goebbels and his wife killed their six children with cyanide before killing themselves the day after Hitler's suicide. Mr Panagopulos said the sale is on behalf of a Swiss company and would not benefit any relatives of Goebbels, but he said his auction house does not identify consignors. He said the company received the materials from a man who obtained them from an earlier owner who won the rights to the writings in a 1950s court case with Goebbels' sister. The auction house last year said it sold the journals written by Mengele, drawing criticism from Rosensaft who said the business was profiting off the sale of materials by one of the worst mass murderers in history. Alexander officials said the Jewish buyer wanted to remain anonymous and is building a collection for a museum.