Gone under the hammer telephone Hitler called a fake MOSCOW, 26 Feb — RIA Novosti. Experts doubt the authenticity of the personal telephone of Adolf Hitler, which was sold at auction for 243 thousand dollars. About it the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said the representative of the Frankfurt Museum of communications Frank Gagel. “It’s definitely a fake. This phone was released by Siemens&Halske, but the receiver he’s English. Never did,” he said. The expert believes that sold under the hammer apparatus was assembled later in the United Kingdom. Suspicions aroused and red that painted phone. “Siemens would make the instance colored plastic and not painted would be a black phone,” said Hagel. Besides, he added, engraved with the emblem of Hitler is also covered with a simple paint, not in the spirit of the time. It is doubtful, according to him, and that the apparatus is equipped with a disc
