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Hitler’s Watch Sells for $1.1 Million at Controversial Auction
Smithsonian Magazine ^ | August 5, 2022 | Sarah Kuta

Posted on 08/05/2022 1:36:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway

I had a couple Nazi things I found at a garage sale. Ebay won’t let you sell them. Had to go to a dealer.


41 posted on 08/05/2022 2:53:45 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Sacajaweau

I have the other end, lots of yellow stars. Didn’t know what to do with it.

I finally framed each one with documents of each survivor in the family.

I like to look at it whenever I feel sorry for myself for anything.

Wife calls it the “don’t be a p—sy” wall and makes the girls go stand in front of it when they are acting like twits about something.


42 posted on 08/05/2022 2:59:59 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Ken H

Nice ;)


43 posted on 08/05/2022 3:02:14 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: nickcarraway

That sh¡t belongs in a museum.


44 posted on 08/05/2022 3:17:27 PM PDT by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: David Chase

Check


45 posted on 08/05/2022 3:57:57 PM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: Jewbacca

It’s still creepy to own something belonging to a satanic genocidal maniac and there is no place in my house for such a thing.

Probably belongs in a war museum


46 posted on 08/05/2022 4:10:27 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: Ken H

They should’ve known this would cause a furor.


Where did the buyer get that kind of money?
Axis banker..


47 posted on 08/05/2022 4:13:31 PM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: ArtDodger

I told people that I bought the watch but, Allied.


48 posted on 08/05/2022 4:16:24 PM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: nickcarraway

Maybe Margaret Sanger’s watch will also come up for sale.


49 posted on 08/05/2022 4:21:37 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: nickcarraway

To say this was Hitler’s watch might be a stretch. If there was any photo of him wearing it I’m sure the auction house would have included it but likely there isn’t any. It was a gift to him by some admirer at the time. This falls into a category of gifts famous people get but probably never use personally. World leaders and other celebs get tons of such stuff. We know that Hitler wasn’t wearing it daily near the end since this was found at his summer house in Bavaria and Hitlers last days were in the Bunker in Berlin.


50 posted on 08/05/2022 5:05:12 PM PDT by xp38
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To: nickcarraway

The watchmaker also had the initials A.H. (So did Alexander Hamilton). But the swastika and the significant dates show that it was Hitler’s watch. Of course the French soldier didn’t have any legal right to take it—he was just looting the house.


51 posted on 08/05/2022 6:25:08 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: nesnah

Maybe it’s Andreas Huber - sort of like CK on a shirt is “Calvin Klein.”


52 posted on 08/05/2022 6:53:15 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: Verginius Rufus

I’m still suspicious about it. There’s actually 3 dates on it, the third being March 5, 1933 (Federal elections in Germany).


53 posted on 08/05/2022 7:08:02 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: blackdog
“ Did anyone have to hide the watch up their ass for any length of time?”

Indeed. 5 long years, before dying of dysentery.
54 posted on 08/05/2022 7:42:19 PM PDT by GOPmember
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To: NWFree

I don’t disagree with you.

But it’s the owner of the watch who gets to make that decision.

We’re not commies who take control over private property.

Yet, anyway.


55 posted on 08/07/2022 7:31:42 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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