The telegram that drove Hitler to suicide – The slip of paper found in Hitler’s underground bunker sells at auction for $55,000. | Jerusalem Post

The telegram that drove Hitler to suicide – The slip of paper found in Hitler’s underground bunker sells at auction for $55,000. | Jerusalem Post

A telegram that may have affected the entire course of World War II sold in an auction for $55,000 on Tuesday according to reports by The Washington Post.

Taken from Hitler’s hideaway bunker at the end of World War II as a souvenir by Capt. Benjamin Bradi, a non-German speaking American soldier, the significance of the slip of paper went unnoticed for years. Bradi’s son found the telegram in his father’s safe years later and wrote his senior thesis on the subject…