Hitler champagne for auction
Published August 4th, 2007
A bottle of Adolf Hitler’s champagne is being sold at an auction house in Dorset.
The 1937 bottle of Moet and Chandon is believed to have been taken from Hitler’s wine cellar by a British soldier and brought home after the war.
It was given to solicitor Nigel Wilson as a thank you gift from a client 15 years ago.
Chris Copson, valuer at Charterhouse auctioneers in Sherborne, said: “As far as we can work out it was retrieved from the ruins of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin after the Nazis were defeated in May 1945.
“They made their way in to the Chancellery, the Russians had been there first, there was a lot of looting and the soldier and members of his unit took themselves a little souvenir of the event.”
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