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When a court in Uruguay ruled that the eagle should be auctioned off to pay off the private investors who had paid for its recovery from the River Plate, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights organisation dedicated to Holocaust research and remembrance, warned that it could fall into the hands of Nazi sympathisers.