A globe that once belonged to Adolf Hitler has sold at auction in San Francisco for £50,000 – more than five times its estimate.
An American soldier found the globe among the ruins of Hitler’s “Eagle’s Nest” in the Bavarian Alps in May 1945.
John Barsamian took it home and kept it for more than 60 years – along with all the military paperwork that allowed him to take the globe to the U.S.
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