Adolf Hitler’s rusty telephone sold for $243,000, enough to buy 315 iPhone 7 Plus models
Adolf Hitler’s personal telephone that was found in a Berlin bunker in 1945 has been sold at an auction for $243,000.
Alexander Historical Auctions , the auction house that sold the telephone, had estimated its worth to be between $200,000 and $300,000. The starting bid was set at $100,000.
Though it was originally a black Bakelite phone, it was later painted crimson and engraved with Hitler’s name.
The Maryland company auctioned off more than 1,000 items including the phone and a porcelain sculpture of an Alsatian dog for $24,300.
More than 70 years old, the Siemens rotary telephone is embossed with a swastika and the eagle symbolic of the Third Reich.
Alexander House dubbed the phone – which Hitler received from the Wehrmacht, Nazi Germany’s armed forces – as “arguably the most destructive ‘weapon’ of all time, which sent millions to their deaths”.
It said Hitler used the telephone to give most of his orders during the last two years of World War II.
So, what alternatives could one have spent the amount on?
The $243,000 paid for Hitler’s rusty telephone is enough money to buy 315 iPhone 7 Plus phones. Even better, the amount can buy three Toyota Land Cruiser V8 vehicles.
Still however, having the telephone used by one of the most powerful men to ever live the world is a good bargain.
