Post by Imbannedeverywhere on Jul 11, 2015 6:31:34 GMT
It is one of the most crucial documents from the most pivotal moment in the most terrible war.
A treasonous telegram from No. 2 Nazi Hermann Goering to none other than the führer himself.
A message that, along with the advancing Allied troops, helped drive Adolf Hitler to swallow cyanide and shoot himself inside his underground Berlin bunker.
Despite its influence on World War II, however, the memorandum ended up inside a South Carolina safe, nearly forgotten for more than a decade until a college student made it his senior thesis.
On Tuesday, the itinerant but now infamous telegram sold at auction for $55,000.
A treasonous telegram from No. 2 Nazi Hermann Goering to none other than the führer himself.
A message that, along with the advancing Allied troops, helped drive Adolf Hitler to swallow cyanide and shoot himself inside his underground Berlin bunker.
Despite its influence on World War II, however, the memorandum ended up inside a South Carolina safe, nearly forgotten for more than a decade until a college student made it his senior thesis.
On Tuesday, the itinerant but now infamous telegram sold at auction for $55,000.
Awesome find for someone
www.msn.com/en-nz/news/world/how-the-nazi-telegram-that-helped-drive-hitler-to-suicide-was-nearly-forgotten-in-a-sc-safe/ar-AAcPh66?ocid=HPCDHP#image=1
