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'Adolf Hitler's bookmark' sold in Starbucks car park
The Telegraph ^

Posted on 12/16/2008 4:53:09 PM PST by nickcarraway

The 18-carat artefact, which is engraved with a message to the German Nazi leader from his wife Eva Braun, had been missing since it was stolen six years ago.

The dedication, to "My Adolf", consoles Hitler for the German surrender at Stalingrad in 1943. The defeat was "only an inconvenience that will not break your certainty of victory", it reads. "My love for you will be eternal, as our Reich will be eternal. Always yours, Eva. 3-2-43."

US police recovered the bookmark after a Romanian named Christian Popescu attempted to sell it to an undercover agent for £65,000 ($100,000). Officers arrested Mr Popescu and seized the ornament in a swoop on the car park of a Starbucks in Bellevue, Seattle as the agent handed over the money.

The bookmark was among several items stolen from an auction house in Madrid, Spain, six years ago. At the time, some antiquities experts questioned its authenticity, and it was valued at between £8,000 ($13,000) and £11,000 ($17,000). As well as the dedication, the bookmark is engraved with a with a portrait of Hitler, an imperial eagle and a swastika.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News
KEYWORDS: fascism; godsgravesglyphs; hitler; nazism; spain
Is it just me, or does this sound like a Borges story?
1 posted on 12/16/2008 4:53:09 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: SunkenCiv

Not sure if this is worthy of the list.


2 posted on 12/16/2008 4:53:51 PM PST by nickcarraway (Are the Good Times Really Over?)
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German surrender at Stalingrad in 1943. The defeat was "only an inconvenience that will not break your certainty of victory",

Ha!

3 posted on 12/16/2008 4:55:11 PM PST by BenLurkin ("Mrs. Claus is a very lucky woman, sir.")
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Wow. I think I'll add it, but not ping the list. Interesting story. If it weren't Hitler, it would be poignant. Of course, after the Battle of Kursk later that year, she just gave him some strudel, if you know what I mean...
The bookmark was among several items stolen from an auction house in Madrid, Spain, six years ago.
In the 1970s a set of phony Hitler diaries popped up in Germany and were published (I think by Sterns) and were later proved to be a forgery from East German spies.

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4 posted on 12/16/2008 4:59:37 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, December 6, 2008 !!!)
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To: nickcarraway

Didn’t Sgt. Carter try to sell Adolph’s pencil box to Sgt. Shultze?


5 posted on 12/16/2008 5:09:03 PM PST by NonValueAdded (once you get to really know people, there are always better reasons than [race] for despising them.)
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I bought this old birth certificate in a public market in Mombasa, Kenya that could be worth some money, too. I am awaiting word from my partner Blago. He will be calling anytime soon about the ID of a buyer from the south side of Chicago.


6 posted on 12/16/2008 5:12:01 PM PST by Ben Reyes
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I heard about that. There was an interview that was being held by API I think. Maybe Gerry Rivers can open the vault that holds the tape.


7 posted on 12/16/2008 5:14:29 PM PST by weegee (Sec. of State Clinton. What kind of change is it to keep the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton Oligarchy?)
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8 posted on 12/16/2008 5:17:46 PM PST by Plutarch
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There's a kid in Pennsylvania who would love that for his third birthday.

Family angry that store won't personalize cake for their (3 y/o) son (named Adolf Hitler Campbell)

9 posted on 12/16/2008 5:23:24 PM PST by KarlInOhio (11/4: The revolutionary socialists beat the Fabian ones. Where can we find a capitalist party?)
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Didn’t Sgt. Carter try to sell Adolph’s pencil box to Sgt. Shultze?

Nah, it was Hermann Göring's toenail clippers.
10 posted on 12/16/2008 5:23:34 PM PST by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim Ignatowski)
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To: KarlInOhio

That sounds like a case of discrimination.


11 posted on 12/16/2008 10:01:15 PM PST by weegee (Sec. of State Clinton. What kind of change is it to keep the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton Oligarchy?)
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