13 minutes agoHitler's golden clock sells over 1.3m euros at auction
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)Adolf Hitler's golden hour has been sold for 1,342,931.55 euros by an anonymous collector. The black belt hand clock, marked by Hitler's initials And it contains a swastika, made by Munich's clockmaker Andreas Hübber. It also contains three dates, Hitler's birthday, the date when [...]
The black belt hand clock, marked by Hitler's initials And it contains a swastika, made by Munich's clockmaker Andreas Hübber.
It also contains three dates -- Hitler's birthday -- the date he was appointed and the date of his Nazi party's victory in 1933.
It was taken as a war link by a French soldier who was part of the first unit to reach Hitler's mountain retreat in Berchtesgaden in May 1945.
Sergeant Robert Mignot, of the 2nd Bled Division, discovered it in the last days of World War II and took it back to his homeland and sold the watch to his cousin.
She passed him to his nephew, who sent him with Historical Alexander Auctions, from Maryland, U.S.A.
The clock is believed to have been given to Hitler in 1933 by the Nazi party he led after being elected as German Chancellor.
It was taken by a French soldier from Berghof, Hitler's mountainous home in Bavari, southern Germany, on May 4, 1945. Hitler had killed himself in his bunker in Berlin.
