Two copies of Mein Kampf signed by Adolf Hitler were put up for auction online through Nate D. Sanders and sold for $64,850, way above expectations.
The two copies were personally signed gifts for Christmas that Hitler gave to a German SS officer, Josef Bauer, reports Reuters. Bauer was involved in Hitler's attempted 1923 Munich coup.
The copies were expected to go for around $20,000 and $25,000 since the very same copies went for $25,000 two years ago. They were sold at the London Bonhams auction house.
According to The Associated Press, these rare copies are 1925 and 1926 editions, which make them rarer than ones more commonly seen, which are often from the 1930s as they were often given away as gifts for weddings during the Nazi reign.
The auction house was also selling off a trench coat supposedly worn by Albert Speer. Speer spent 20 years in prison after confessing at the Nuremberg trials for being responsible for the Holocaust. The jacket was stolen by an Allied soldier and brought back home.
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