US: Hitler’s watch sells at Maryland public sale for $1.1 million
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A Maryland public sale home has offered a wristwatch that after belonged to Adolf Hitler for $1.1 million.
Alexander Historical Auctions in Chesapeake City had estimated the worth between $2 and $4 million, describing the watch as a “World War II relic of historic proportions.”
Newsoutlets report that Jewish leaders and others objected to the sale this week, saying it had little to no historic worth.
The public sale home’s president, Bill Panagopulos, defended the public sale and mentioned the client is a European Jew.
The watch options the initials AH and a swastika. The public sale home mentioned a French soldier who was within the first unit to shut in on Hitler in May 1945 at his Berchtesgaden retreat seized it as spoils of struggle.
