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November 13,
2020 - Droog Magazine periodical for investigative
journalism The strange business of selling fakes, forgeries and other concoctions attributed to Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and other Nazi criminals. Introduction In
the direct post war period there was very little
interest in objects or documents originating from or
belonging to high ranking Nazi's. Cars excluded. Goering's car attracts interest in London Souvenir collector exhibits her for charitable purposes.
The car - a moving fortress whose doors and floor were covered with steel plates - was recently auctioned for around $ 3,000 in the property of Raymond Way, a London car dealer who likes to buy up infamous and famous cars and buy them. for charitable purposes.
The
idea of buying world history in the form of cars
came to Way
last summer when he read that the palatial
Canadian-built Buick used
by the Duke of Windsor at the time of his abdication
- now 15 years
ago - would be auctioned. He bought the cart for
just £ 425 and has
raised over £ 4000 for charitable purposes. He also
has in his
collection a closed car, which belonged to Winston
Churchill when he
was Lord of the Admiralty at the start of the Second
World War; also
the light car owned by the missing British Foreign
Office diplomat
Donald MacLean and a car that once belonged to Eva
Braun, who was
said to have married Hitler in the last days of the
war. Goerings auto trekt te Londen belangstelling. Algemeen Handelsblad, Amsterdam, 15-01-1953. https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=KBNRC01:000042567:mpeg21:a0060 No money for Mein Kampf
BIRMINGHAM.
10th of July. In Birmingham today an attempt was
made to auction
Hitler's own copy of Mein Kampf ', but the 200 art
dealers who
attended the auction made no bid for the 'Nazi
Bible'. The
leather-bound book with gold lock had a reverse of
at least £ 4,000 (40,000
guilders) However, when the auctioneer mentioned
this price, it
turned out that that nobody was interested. The book
will now be
sold privately. One of the peculiarities of Hitler's
copy is that it
has a large number of blood stains. The explanation
for this is
that it was used in the taking of the oath of
allegiance by Nazi
officers, who signed their oath with blood. A
British officer found
the copy in the Chancellery in Berlin shortly after
the war and
smuggled it to England, where he sold it to a
variety artist. Two
months ago, the latter transferred "Mein Kampf" to a
leather manufacturer again. who finally put it up
for auction. -
(Reuter) Geen geld voor “Mein Kampf”. De Telegraaf, Amsterdam, 11-07-1953. https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:110585758:mpeg21:a0198
Buitenland. Het Vaderland, 's-Gravenhage, 11-07-1953. https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMKB19:000832060:mpeg21:a00026
Exchanges rates / value of money 1950 1 NL guilder = 0,94 D-mark 1 D-mark = 1,06 NL guilder. 1 US dollar = 3,77 NL guilder 1 NL guilder = 0,27 US dollar. 1 UK pound = 10,64 NL guilder 1 NL guilder = 0,09 UK pound Value of the Guilder/Euro. [Calculation with inflation correction]. International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. http://www.iisg.nl/hpw/calculate.php See also: Inflation corrector https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/ © Compilation Bart FM Droog, 2020. |
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