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 ...
Not sure if this is worthy of the list.
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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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Didn’t Sgt. Carter try to sell Adolph’s pencil box to Sgt. Shultze?
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.
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.
Family angry that store won't personalize cake for their (3 y/o) son (named Adolf Hitler Campbell)
That sounds like a case of discrimination.
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