Following the revelation of GOP megadonor Harlan Crow’s questionable association with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, further information about the Texan has come to light, including a claim that Crow is an enthusiastic collector of Adolf Hitler memorabilia. The pictures of the memorabilia have now surfaced on social media.

The Washingtonian on Friday republished a 2014 article by the Dallas Morning News in which a tour of Crow’s mansion in the Dallas area revealed the billionaire’s historical collection includes an astonishing amount of Nazi artifacts. These include a copy of Mein Kampf that has been personally signed by the author, two cityscape paintings by the failed artist-turned-dictator, Nazi medallions, swastika-embossed linens, and more.

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The “Garden of Evil,” where monuments of infamous despots including Russia’s Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin, Yugoslavia’s Josip Broz Tito, and Romania’s Nicolae Ceausescu reside, is less ominous but no less bizarre.

Crow was initially reluctant to discuss his collection with the Dallas Morning News, but he made sure to emphasize that the dictator statues were real monuments that stood in the dictators’ countries’ public squares until they were overthrown by citizens at the end of their regimes, as opposed to ones that Crow had commissioned.

In order to build a beautiful oasis honoring “man’s inhumanity to man,” as the Dallas Morning News put it, Crow bought the statues that had been smuggled out of their respective nations.

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While Crow’s extensive historical collection does contain a number of fascinating objects, such as signed documents by Christopher Columbus and George Washington, a monument of Winston Churchill, Monet paintings, and other notable non-fascist artefacts, visiting Crow’s gallery may be unsettling: According to the publication, when looking at the walls of Crow’s house, paintings by Hitler and Norman Rockwell are next to each other.

A visitor to Crow’s house told the Washingtonian, “I still can’t get over the collection of Nazi memorabilia.” “Having someone explain the significance of each piece would have been beneficial. You kind of simply gasp when you walk into the room without that background.

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Following the ProPublica investigation detailing GOP megadonor Crow’s lavish gift-giving to Thomas, which included opulent vacations, cruises on superyachts, and more, the Supreme Court Justice remarked in a statement on Friday that he didn’t understand the fuss.