MOSCOW, April 3 (RAPSI) – The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office on Thursday disrupted an auction of Nazi literature held in an antique Moscow book shop, according to a statement released by the office.

The prosecutors’ statement says that heads of Nikitsky Antique Books planned to conduct an auction of genuine Nazi literature and propaganda posters during the months of March and April.

The Prosecutor General’s Office did not specify what materials would be auctioned off.

A book by chief Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels was declared extremist by the Moscow City Court in January after several Moscow bookstores attempted to sell it.
The book, "Michael," was written as a diary and published in 1929. The book is both autobiographical and a tribute to Goebbels' friend, Richard Flisges who had fought in World War I.

In 2013, Benito Mussolini's book “The Third Way” was also declared extremist. The Federal law on combating extremism already recognizes the works of Italian Fascist leaders, including Mussolini, as extremist without the need for additional linguistic evaluation.

In December 2012, a Moscow court added Nazi ideologist Alfred Rosenberg's books, "Myth of the Twentieth Century" and "Memoirs," to the list of extremist literature banned from publication and sale. Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf has also been banned as extremist in Russia.

Earlier in March,  Russian lawmakers drafted a bill proposing to criminalize attempts to glorify Nazis or rehabilitate Nazism.