Hitler's "Most Destructive Weapon of All Time" Auctioned for $240,000

JNI Media Staff : Feb 22, 2017
Breaking Israel News/JNI Media

"It would be impossible to find a more impactful relic than the primary tool used by the most evil man in history to annihilate countless innocents, lay waste to hundreds of thousands of square miles of land, and in the end, destroy his own country and people ... with effects that still menacingly reverberate today." -Alexander Historical Auctions House

(Germany)—[Breaking Israel News] Adolf Hitler's personal telephone, presented to him by the Wehrmacht and engraved with his name, which was later gifted by Russian officers to Field Marshal Montgomery's Deputy Chief Signals Officer who had arrived at the Fuhrerbunker only days after the fall of Berlin, was auctioned by Alexander Historical Auctions house in Maryland. (Photo: Courtesy Alexander Historical Auctions)

The auction house quipped that this phone is "arguably the most destructive 'weapon' of all time, which sent millions to their deaths around the world."

The "Siemens" phone, originally bearing a black Bakelite body, was professionally painted a deep red and bears on the reverse engraved eagle and swastika above the owner's name, appearing beneath the handset cradle. The rotary dial is comprised of red Bakelite with a faded interior number dial on its surface, with a black numbered dial beneath. The handset bears an approx. 40-inch braided cord.

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