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Hitler's phone sold for $243,000 at auction

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CHESAPEAKE CITY, Md. (AP) - A telephone owned by Adolf Hitler has sold at auction for $243,000.
 
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 Ralph Rayner, during a visit to Hitler's bunker in Berlin. The phone was used in vehicles and trains as well as Hitler's field headquarters.
 
 
Kornfeld says a porcelain figure of an Alsatian dog, also owned by Hitler, also sold Sunday to a different bidder for $24,300.
 

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