Hitler’s watch sells at Maryland auction for $1.1 million

A Maryland auction house has sold a wrwatch that once belonged to Adolf Hitler for $1.1 million.
Alexander Horical Auctions in Chesapeake City had estimated the value between $2 and $4 million, describing the watch as a “World War II relic of horic proportions.”
Newsoutlets report that Jewish leaders and others objected to the sale this week, saying it had little to no horical value.
The auction house’s president, Bill Panagopulos, defended the auction and said the buyer is a European Jew.
The watch features the initials AH and a swastika. The auction house said a French soldier who was in the first unit to close in on Hitler in May 1945 at his Berchtesgaden retreat seized it as spoils of war.