Adolf Hitler’s phone directory which contains details of some of the key Nazi figures has been listed for auction.
The Third Reich book was recovered in Berlin at the end of World War Two by Captain John Hodge who was a British Grenadier Guards officer and is expected to fetch up to $20,000.
It contains more than 200 handwritten entries, including Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, Rudolph Hess, Hermann Goering, Joachim Von Ribbentrop, Reinhard Heydrich, Albert Speer and Albert Bormann, though there is one glaring omission – Adolf Hitler.
The book on the left entitled Fernsprech-Teilnehmer, which translates to ‘telephone subscribers’, and the inside showing the contact details
The Third Reich book was recovered in Berlin at the end of World War Two by Captain John Hodge who was a British Grenadier Guards officer and is expected to fetch up to $20,000. His signature can be seen on this letter to the War Crimes Investigation Unit
There is one notable omission from the phonebook and that is Adolf Hitler, pictured here
The book contains more than 200 handwritten entries, including Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, Rudolph Hess, Hermann Goering, Joachim Von Ribbentrop, Reinhard Heydrich, Albert Speer and Albert Bormann, though there is one glaring omission – Adolf Hitler
The leather, cloth-bound book is being put up for auction by Henry Aldridge and Son, which is based in Devizes, Wiltshire.
Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge told Fox News: ‘This is a unique piece of history that offers both historians and collectors access to a previously unseen amount of information relating to the highest echelons of one of the most evil regimes in modern history.’
Included in the lot is a letter from Goebbels which was found folded inside it.
Captain Hodge was one of the first British soldiers to reach Berlin at the end of the war and it was his job to instruct civilians to clear debris from various parts of the Reich Chancellery, which is where he found the directory.
While in the Reich Chancellery, he found the telephone directory.
It will go under the hammer on Saturday and pre-sale estimates have the lot priced at between £13,500 and £20,400.