Nazi Dictator Adolf Hitler’s phone sold on Sunday afternoon to a person who bid by phone, said Andreas Kornfeld of Alexander Historical Auctions, without naming the buyer. Reports Deutsche Welle.
A US auction house is selling one of Adolf Hitler’s telephones at an estimated cost of $200,000 to $300,000. The auction house said bidding would start at $100,000 this weekend. (18.02.2017)
Bidding for the phone started at $100,000 (94,000 euros) and the successful bidder paid $243,000, the Maryland-based auctioneer added.
Originally a black Bakelite phone, later painted crimson and engraved with Hitler’s name, the relic was found in the Nazi leader’s Berlin bunker in 1945 following the regime’s defeat in World War II
