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Adolf Hitler’s reading glasses are expected to fetch £5,000 in a huge sale of his possessions.The Nazi leader wore them at military conferences when his eyesight failed as the Second World War dragged on.But few photos exist of him wearing them as he saw it as a weakness.
They are part of a large cache of Hitler ¬memorabilia going under the hammer in Munich later this month.Other objects include a silver cigarette case, embossed with an eagle clutching a swastika and Hitler’s initials. It has a starting price of £9,500.Hitler did not smoke but he offered cigarettes to ¬dignitaries at his Reich Chancellery in Berlin.A lamp from his Munich apartment could fetch at least £4,600 and five pieces of cutlery with his monogram have a reserve of £1,700.Pricier items include a gold watch, given to the dictator in 1929 and found on his body in the -Führerbunker, in Berlin, after his suicide in 1945. It could fetch twice its £9,000 starting price.A gold and emerald swastika, a birthday gift to Hitler in 1942, could raise £20,000.And a signed copy of Mein Kampf, ¬dedicated to Rudolph Hess, later his deputy, is due to go for £5,000.Hess was a fellow ¬prisoner at Landsburg Fortress after a failed coup in the 1920s.Its inscription reads: “To my faithful fortress companion Rudolph Hess, dedicated by Adolf Hitler, Munich, 17 October 1925.”Hermann Historica Munich auction house says all bidders will be vetted to avoid objects going to neo-Nazis.
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