Harare, Zimbabwe (News of the South)-An old rotary Siemens telephone belonging to dictator Adolf Hitler and used during the World War 2 was sold at auction for $243 000.
According to media reports the originally black Bakelite phone engraved with Hitler’s name was found in his bunker in 1945 after his regime had been defeated.
Alexander Historical Auctions started the bid for the item at $100 000 and managed to sell it off for 243 000 to a bidder whose identity they could not reveal.
According to MyBroadband the more than 70 year old Siemens rotary phone 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 using the phone Hitler used to give most of his orders during the last two years of World War 2.
The phone was later given to British Brigadier Sir Ralph Rayner during a tour of the bunker shortly after Germany’s surrender.
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