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CHESAPEAKE CITY, Md. — A Maryland public sale home has offered a wristwatch that after belonged to Adolf Hitler for $1.1 million.
Alexander Historic Auctions in Chesapeake Metropolis had estimated the worth between $2 and $4 million, describing the watch as a “World Conflict II relic of historic proportions.”
Information retailers 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, Invoice Panagopulos, defended the public sale and stated the client is a European Jew.
The watch options the initials AH and a swastika. The public sale home stated a French soldier who was within the first unit to shut in on Hitler in Might 1945 at his Berchtesgaden retreat seized it as spoils of warfare.
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