US auction house to sell Adolf Hitler's wartime telephone over the weekend
Although the bidding price starts from $100,000, Alexander Historical Auctions officials hope that the device can fetch $300,000.
An auction house in United States will put up Adolf Hitler’s personal phone used during World War II on sale this weekend. Alexander Historical Auctions said bidding in Chesapeake City, Maryland, will start at $100,000 (Rs 68 lakh approximately).
The crimson Bakelite phone was found in Hitler’s Berlin bunker in 1945. Hitler had got the phone from the Wehrmacht, Nazi Germany’s armed forces, reported AFP. The Soviet soldiers handed it over to British Brigadier Sir Ralph Rayner as a souvenir after Germany surrendered. The phone with the Führer ‘s name and the Nazi party symbol engraved on it is being sold by Sir Ralph’s son.
Auction house official Bill Panagopulos told Associated Press that the phone was a “weapon of mass destruction”. Although the bidding price starts from $100,000, the auction house officials hope that the phone can fetch $300,000.