The phone book, believed to belong to Adolf Hitler, was sold at auction “Henry Aldridge & Son” in the UK for 33,000 pounds or about $ 45,000, which is twice as high as expected. The phone book was found in his office at the end of the Second World War by a British investigator, Captain John Hodge, with more than 200 handwritten names, including Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, Rudolf Hess, Hermann Göring, Albert Bormann, Reinhard Heydrich. As stated, the initial price of the phone book was 15,000 pounds.
“It’s a unique piece of history that offers historians and collectors access to huge amount of information about the highest levels of one of the most dangerous regims in modern history.” The directory was sold by the family of someone who dedicated a piece of his career to the hunt of these individuals.