HITLER'S WATCH SELLS FOR $1.1 MILLION IN CONTENTIOUS SALE

  • 30/07/2022

At a US auction, a watch rumoured to have belonged to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler brought $1.1 million (£900,000). The Huber watch displays a swastika and bears the initials AH inscribed on it. It was purchased from an unknown bidder.

Prior to the auction at Alexander Historical Auctions in Maryland, Jewish leaders denounced it. The auction house, which has in the past offered for sale Nazi artefacts, told German media that its goal was to preserve history.

Between 1933 and 1945, Adolf Hitler served as the leader of Nazi Germany, presiding over the methodical killing of up to 11 million people, six million of whom were Jewish. The product catalogue for the watch says it was possibly given as a birthday present to the fascist leader in 1933, the year he became Chancellor of Germany.

An assessment by the auction house reads that the watch was taken as a souvenir when some 30 French soldiers stormed the Berghof, Hitler's mountain retreat in May, 1945.
It is then thought the timepiece was resold and passed down through several generations until now.

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