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A top hat belonging to Adolf Hitler was once auctioned for 50,000 euros. A watercolor painting by Hitler changed hands years ago for 130,000 euros, his reading glasses for 4,800 euros.

This top hat from Hitler was auctioned in 2019

At a controversial auction in the USA, a gold watch that is said to have once belonged to him has now sold for more than a million dollars.

According to the auction house Alexander Historical Auctions, the watch with a reversible case and engraved imperial eagle and swastika achieved a price of 1.1 million dollars (1.08 million euros).

According to the auction house, the gold watch was given to Hitler by members of the NSDAP in 1933. It was found on May 4, 1945 - four days after Hitler's suicide in Berlin - by a French soldier in Hitler's former Alpine residence in Berchtesgaden. The watch is said to have been in the soldier's family for decades.

The "Berghof", Hitler's former holiday home, in Berchtesgaden

The auction of the objects had triggered sharp criticism in advance. The Jewish umbrella organization European Jewish Association (EJA), called for the auction to be canceled.

"The sale of these items is despicable," said EJC Chairman Rabbi Menachem Margolin in an open letter to the auction organizers.

Nazi legacies may belong in museums, but certainly not under the hammer, emphasized Margolin.

The objects belonging to the genocide Hitler in no way contributed to learning from the atrocities of the Nazi era, he emphasized, referring to the estimated six million Jewish deaths from this dark chapter of German history.

In 2017, Alexander Historical Auctions auction house had already auctioned off a red telephone belonging to Adolf Hitler that had been found in the Führerbunker in Berlin after the war's end for $243,000.