comment: A sword thought to have belonged to Polish king Sigismund III Vasa has been put up for sale in Germany.
  Posting photos of the weapon on its website, Berlin auction house Carsten Zeige said that the sword “probably belonged to Sigismund III Vasa and came from a pre-war Polish collection.”
  
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  Although the seller did not inform how the sword came into its possession, the asking price is EUR 30,000.
  In addition, the auction house catalogue also lists the Order of the White Eagle, Poland’s highest honour, for sale as well as a rapier with a scabbard that belonged to Aleksander Józef Sułkowski, a minister and general during the reign of King August III Sas.
  The auction planned for January 14 has now sparked online fury with many suggesting the items were stolen from Poland during WWII. 
  A report published by the government in London in 1945 about works of art stolen in Poland during World War II said that the Germans and the Soviets plundered about 30 billion dollars worth of unique cultural goods.