General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHitler's phone - used to order millions of people to their deaths - to sell at auction
The infamous red personal telephone (my comment - steve2470)
Adolf Hitler s mobile phone - recovered by a British officer from the Fuhrers bunker after his death - is set to fetch £400,000 at auction.
The Nazi leader travelled everywhere with the blood-red telephone and used it to issue orders that sent millions of people to their deaths.
The phone - described as virtually unequalled in historical importance - was taken from the bunker by Brigadier Sir Ralph Rayner.
He was the first Briton to arrive at Hitlers Berlin hideaway after the feared dictator took his own life at the end of World War II .
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/hitlers-phone-used-order-millions-9728784
more at link
TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)It's not like it's haunted.
I'm sure there are enough artifacts in museums from the Third Reich as is. I don't think the Hitler's phone is going to be the thing that reminds somebody who would have otherwise forgot.
TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)linuxman
(2,337 posts)TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)death is disgusting....
linuxman
(2,337 posts)I just don't feel anything about the physical remains of the actions. Hitler's phone doesn't bother me any more than Hitler's Berlin from where he made the calls, or Hitler's Pen with which he wrote his letters, or Hitler's silverware, which he used to eat before going to work to make the call on his phone. They're just things to me. Historically important things, but just things in the end.
TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)so revolted...but just knowing that this phone was the actual phone that sent millions to their death gets me sick. This phone should be destroyed...not prized nor sold for profit.
linuxman
(2,337 posts)It's a historic artifact. It should no more be destroyed than a train car that literally sent people to their deaths. Would you destroy a document that ordered the sending of people to their deaths? Surely that's a much more real and tangible vestige of the holocaust that the phone.
TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)linuxman
(2,337 posts)"If it financialy rewarded anyone tied to the act, I'd agree."
steve2470
(37,457 posts)We need to be reminded of the horror of Hitler and his ideas.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)geomon666
(7,512 posts)Now he just needs to grow the mustache.
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)as his top advisor, so why not the phone?
LeftInTX
(25,381 posts)I thought to myself Bannon and Richard Spencer will fight over it!
BainsBane
(53,035 posts)Docreed2003
(16,863 posts)Next to his personal copy of "Mein Kampf"...
ALBliberal
(2,342 posts)But really should be destroyed.
Calculating
(2,955 posts)I wouldn't want it destroyed though. It has too much historical value.