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steve2470

(37,457 posts)
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 05:57 PM Jan 2017

Hitler'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 Fuhrer’s 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 Hitler’s 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

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Hitler's phone - used to order millions of people to their deaths - to sell at auction (Original Post) steve2470 Jan 2017 OP
That should be destroyed not for sale or at the most maybe in a museum so we REMEMBER. TrekLuver Jan 2017 #1
Why? linuxman Jan 2017 #6
Then it should be destroyed. TrekLuver Jan 2017 #8
Why though? linuxman Jan 2017 #9
Obviously we differ on opinion here. I think the phone that Hitler used to send millions to their TrekLuver Jan 2017 #10
I guess we do. linuxman Jan 2017 #14
I understand where you are coming from...and it if was a fork or a plate etc...I wouldn't be TrekLuver Jan 2017 #17
If it financialy rewarded anyone tied to the act, I'd agree. It doesn't though. linuxman Jan 2017 #18
It's not financially rewarding anyone? It's up for auction.... TrekLuver Jan 2017 #20
Are you willfully ignoring what I wrote? linuxman Jan 2017 #21
I vote for the museum steve2470 Jan 2017 #11
TRUMP IS GOING TO BE A BIDDER Angry Dragon Jan 2017 #2
He's already got the uniform. geomon666 Jan 2017 #3
He already has Martin Bormann Elwood P Dowd Jan 2017 #4
Bannon is salivating LeftInTX Jan 2017 #5
Funny bdamomma Jan 2017 #19
We'll be seeing that on Trump's desk BainsBane Jan 2017 #7
It will go great.. Docreed2003 Jan 2017 #12
Oh the irony.... ALBliberal Jan 2017 #13
Should probably go to a museum Calculating Jan 2017 #15
I thought you meant Trump was selling a phone. Vinca Jan 2017 #16
 

linuxman

(2,337 posts)
6. Why?
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 06:10 PM
Jan 2017

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)
10. Obviously we differ on opinion here. I think the phone that Hitler used to send millions to their
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 06:14 PM
Jan 2017

death is disgusting....

 

linuxman

(2,337 posts)
14. I guess we do.
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 06:26 PM
Jan 2017

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)
17. I understand where you are coming from...and it if was a fork or a plate etc...I wouldn't be
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 07:06 PM
Jan 2017

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)
18. If it financialy rewarded anyone tied to the act, I'd agree. It doesn't though.
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 09:16 PM
Jan 2017

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.

 

linuxman

(2,337 posts)
21. Are you willfully ignoring what I wrote?
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 10:24 PM
Jan 2017

"If it financialy rewarded anyone tied to the act, I'd agree."

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