WWII history

Hitler’s phone used to ‘send millions to their deaths’ sold for $243,000 at US auction

The swastika-emblazoned phone of Adolf Hitler used to send “millions to their deaths” has been sold at auction in Maryland for $243,000.

Alexander Historical Auctions sold the phone on Sunday to an anonymous bidder, who aptly made his offer by phone. A porcelain Alsatian dog belonging to Hitler was also sold for $24,300.

The distinctive red phone was discovered in the Berlin bunker where Hitler hid in the days before his death as the city was being overrun in 1945. The auction house described it as “arguably the most destructive ‘weapon’ of all time.”