When I was in the Army in Germany in the during my 1st tour, dates below, the Army Class VI stores had a special sale of “Rommel’s Rum and Brandy.” This was original bottles of rum and brandy either captured by the US Army in North Africa or in Italy from supply stocks to be sent to Rommel when he was leading the Afrika Korps. I bought a bottle of each. I drank the rum and brandy years ago, but saved the bottle and the small tags telling the story behind them.
Too cool. Have priced the bottles?
Yeah, throwing away such bottles was a perfectly understandable thing to do at the time, but a big mistake in retrospect. You were smart. Recently I watched/listened to an interview on YT, one of the WWII airborne guys who were shown Hitler’s personal stash of booze, which they mostly swilled down while just doing their jobs. :^) The interviewee noted that he had two bottles marked, in ink, for Hitler only, and drank one back at the time, and drank the second one years later at a vet’s gathering I think, but didn’t save either bottle. Wowzo. :^) Can’t figure out which vid at the moment.
https://www.youtube.com/c/avcvideos/videos