German Gun Linked to Hitler Fetches $140,025

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February 10, 2006|From Associated Press

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — With a purported link to Adolf Hitler driving up the price, a World War II-era German gun sold for $140,025 in an online auction that ended Thursday night.

Bidding began Jan. 30 on www.gunbroker.comand stalled for days at $13,000 before rising as Thursday's deadline loomed. At least 60 bids were put in for the weapon; the name of Thursday's winning bidder was not released.

No one knows for sure whether Hitler owned the Krieghoff Drilling shotgun/rifle engraved with the initials "A.H."

Randall Gibson, author of "The Krieghoff Parabellum," a reference book on the gun maker, has said he believes Hitler did. He said the company gave engraved guns to Hitler and other high-ranking German officials before World War II.

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