Someone Just Bought Adolf Hitler’s Phone For Almost $250,000

One wonders why Adolf Hitler’s phone would be so valuable, but alas it is. An unidentified North American buyer placed a $243,000 bid over the phone at a U.S. auction over the weekend, and won Adolf Hitler’s phone.

It probably helps the value when the auction house, Alexander Historical Auctions in Chesapeake City, Maryland, described the phone as “Hitler’s mobile device of destruction.”

The phone, from World War II, has an engraving of Hitler’s name and a swastika symbol on it, and was found in Hitler’s Berlin bunker in 1945.

It was then given as a gift to British officer Sir Ralph Rayner by Russian officers shortly after Germany’s surrender.