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Adolf Hitler's telephone in US auction

Adolf Hitler's personal telephone will be auctioned later today in the United States. Originally a black Bakelite phone that was later painted crimson and engraved with Hitler's name, it was found in the Berlin bunker where the Nazi leader committed suicide in 1945. Alex Ritson reports.

(Picture: Hitler's personal telephone at the auction house in Maryland. Credit: AP)

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