Phonebook of Hitler sold at auction for nearly 45 thousand dollars
MOSCOW, 24 Sep — RIA Novosti. Phone book, allegedly belonging to Adolf Hitler, was sold at auction by Henry Aldridge and Son in the UK for 33 thousand pounds (about 44.5 thousand U.S. dollars), according to the Daily Mail newspaper.
As reported on the official website of the auction, the book was discovered in the Chancellery of the British filed by John Hodge 72 years ago, at the end of the Second world war.
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— Joël Stoppels (@battlefieldgron) 24 Sep 2017
The book contains more than 200 hand-written phone numbers including numbers of Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, Rudolf Hess, Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Reinhard Heydrich, albert Bormann and other high-ranking members of the SS.
In addition, the book recorded the numbers of the personal architect of Hitler, albert Speer and photographer Heinrich Hoffmann, who had acquainted the head of the Third Reich with his future wife Eva Braun. As noted, the name of Adolf Hitler the only thing that’s not listed.
“This is a unique piece of history, which gives access to historians and collectors to previously unknown information regarding the top echelon of one of the most terrible modes”, — quotes the edition of the representative of the auction house’s Andrew Aldridge.
Original price phone book was 10-15 thousand pounds. The names of the seller and the buyer of the book were not disclosed, but the publication says that the book auction gave the relatives of a man, “hunting” on high-ranking officials of the Third Reich.
Phone Hitler went under the hammer for $240 thousand