Hitler Wine Fake?
Sir Ian Kershaw, Professor of Modern History at Sheffield University, says the Hitler wine recently sold at auction may be fake. Historian Felix Pryor agrees and states that the notion of Hitler handing out wine is “utterly farcical”.
Frank Litz, a specialist in Nazi memorabilia, chimes in, too, “On his 54th birthday in 1943 Hitler was trying to come to terms with the catastrophic loss of the 6th Army at Stalingrad, the bombing war on Germany and the rout of the Afrika Korps. Handing out carpetings was more the order of the day than handing out wine.”
Fake or not? Who really knows? But even if it is real,
February 28th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
not to mention the fact that he was a teetotaler!