To become part of history you have to do something really big. Since history is plagued by names and great minds. But there are few figures in it that are as known as Adolf Hitler. Like it or not Hitler is one of mankind’s most influential characters. Mostly because he remember us of the atrocities that we as a species are capable of.
Hitler was not only a key figure in nazism and during WWII. But also Hitler and his actions, in one way or another, took part in the development of many things that we use in modern times. Mainly and most importantly maybe the Human Rights.
Part of history.
The past Sunday a telephone that belonged to Adolf Hitler was sold at auction for a price of $243,000. The personal red Siemens phone has Hitler’s name and a swastika with the symbolic German eagle of the Third Reich on it.The historical phone was sold to an anonymous bidder by the auction house “Alexander Historical Auctions” in Maryland.
According to a catalog of the auction house, the phone is probably one of our history’s most destructive weapon of all times. Since Hitler use it to give most of his orders in the last two years of his reign. Describing it: “arguably the most destructive weapon of all time, which sent millions to their deaths.”
The previous owner.
The originally black Bakelite phone was found in the Nazi leader’s bunker in Berlin in 1945. After the Germans were defeated. Then the item was given as a gift by the Russians to the British officer Sir Ralph Rayner, on a tour in the bunker.
The Russians gave the phone to Rayner after he joked about preferring red instead of a phone that belonged to Eva Braun, Hitler’s bride on May of 1945. To what they handed the crimson red and engraved with Hitler’s name phone. Then Ralph Rayner passed it down to his son Ranulf Rayner after his death.
War loot.
Rayner told CNN that his father brought back to his home England the phone and a dog figurine. The figurine was sold for 24,300$, along with the phone, and was made by slave laborers at the Dachau concentration camp.
“My father didn’t see it as a relic of Hitler’s glory days, more a battered remnant of his defeat, a sort of war trophy. He never thought it would become an important artifact,” said Rayner. Also, he said that he hoped that the items were bought by a museum. “I don’t want them to be hidden again, I want them to remind the world of the horrors of war.”
Source: usatoday.com