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Phone Hitler © Photo from Alexander Historical Auctions
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Personal telephone Adolf Hitler put up for auction, which will hold a February 19, 2017 the American Alexander Historical Auctions auction house. Starting price of the device is $ 200-300 thousand.
Telephone was in Hitler's Berlin bunker and was used to connect the last two years of World War II. The device is made of black Bakelite, his body painted with red paint and decorated with a swastika.
In May 1945, after the capitulation of Nazi Germany, the phone was presented by the Soviet military to the British liaison officer Ralph Rayner. In 1977, when he died Rayner, the unit succeeded by his son, Reynulf.
"My father did not consider it some relic - rather, a symbol of destruction, so the spoils of war. He never thought that this phone will be an important artifact, "- said Reynulf Rayner.
Along with the phone Hitler put up for auction Shepherd porcelain figurine, made prisoners of the death camp at Dachau. It was donated by Heinrich Himmler to Hitler.
It proizvdenie brought from Germany the same Ralph Rayner. Lot is estimated at $ 25-35 million. According to CNN, the auction will be held in Chesapeake City (Maryland, USA). | rosbalt
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