BERLIN – A German newspaper is reporting that Adolf Hitler's original Mercedes has been sold to an unidentified Russian billionaire for several million euros.
Express daily wrote Monday that a middleman for the billionaire approached Duesseldorf-based vintage car dealer Michael Froehlich and asked him to track down the dictator's dark-blue 770 K model.
"I was really torn," Froehlich told Express. "After all this was about the car of a horrible mass murderer."
Nonetheless, Froehlich told Express he tracked down the car in Germany.
The paper said the billionaire flew in by private jet and bought it from the private owner for between euro4 million to euro10 million ($6 million to $15 million).
Froehlich could not be reached for comment.
---------------------
Somehow it suits me just fine that Hitler's car ends up in Russia.
This is not his only car. One of his originals is in Stuttgart, complete with a bullet hole at the Mercedes Museum. One of Goerings cars is at the Sinsheim Museum.
It is just a car, yes Hitler was a dictator, but why go on about stuff like this? What about all the other dictators that were also in the world that still is and were?
It is just a car, yes Hitler was a dictator, but why go on about stuff like this? What about all the other dictators that were also in the world that still is and were?