Andreas Kornfeld of Alexander Historical Auctions says the phone sold Sunday afternoon to a person who bid by phone. The auction house does not disclose the names of buyers. Bidding for the phone started at $100,000. The red telephone includes a Nazi party symbol and Hitler's name engraved on the back. Occupying Russian officers gave the phone to a British officer, Sir … [Read more...]
The house where Adolf Hitler was born, confiscated by the Austrian authorities
The Austrian parliament has passed a low that allows the state to take the house in Braunau Am Inn where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889, according to the BBC. The vote puts an end to a long dispute between the Austrian authorities and the current owner of the building, Gerlinde Pommer. She has repeatedly refused to sell and to renovate the house. The woman will receive … [Read more...]
The office in which Adolf Hitler died, rebuilt in an ex-Nazi bunker
In a former bunker of five floors, built in the era of the National-Socialism in Berlin, was created a replica of the office in which Adolf Hitler committed suicide swallowing cyanide and which provides an extensive documentation about the history of the Nazism, according to EFE. Under the title 'Dokumentation Führerbunker', an exhibition that shows events from the Second World … [Read more...]