Adolf
Hitler's telephone was sold at auction in the United States on Sunday
for $243,000. The winning bid was made by phone but the name of the
bidder has not been released.
The phone was presented to Hitler by
the Wehrmacht and was used by the Nazi leader to issue most of his
commands during the last two years of World War II, according to a
description in the catalog for Alexander Historical Auctions in
Maryland.
The phone was recovered from the Fuhrerbunker in 1945 and has been kept in a box in an English country house ever since.
Made
by Siemens as a black Bakelite phone, it was later painted red and
engraved with Hitler's name and a swastika, the catalog says.
The
auction house describes the telephone as "Hitler's mobile device of
destruction" and called it "arguably the most destructive 'weapon' of
all time, which sent millions to their deaths around the world."
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