Hitler's desk and chair for sale

BBC News: Hitler's desk 'may sell for $1m'

Shouldn't this be on the "Furniture for Sale but not IKEA"-thread?

duhh?
apartment was on prinzregentenplatz and the 38 treaty was signed in the fuhrerbau on königsplatzt? or did they sneak off for a quick schnapps and a look at adolf's holiday plans for the next 7 years?

"vell eva vas talkin' about visiting all your countries..."

Amusingly enough, the desk was made by a Jewish furnisher called Ballin, who was later allowed to go to Switzerland by Göring. Ballin was also a Bayerischer Hoflieferant.
Read more here (PDF) - SZ article on Ed Maier website on the topic, in German.

Ah yes Mr Gideon, but you're confusing your agreements here. The 38 Munich peace accords were indeed signed in the Fuhrerbau, but Neville popped round to Hitler's gaff on the way to the airport the next morning and obtained the now infamous 'bit of paper' where Hitler undertook to stick to 'peace in our time'. That piece of paper may well have been written on that desk.

it may also have been signed on the toilet! and how do you know that piece of paper old chamberlin was waving wasn't flight times of adolf and eva's next holidays?

(must admit your indepth knowledge does scare me sometimes, you should get out more often)

That's not knowledge mate - that's common knowledge. Surprised you didn't know it yourself. But yes, that piece of paper old Nev was waving might have been the Easyjet inflight magazine and/or it could have been signed on Hitler's crapper. We'll never know.

It doesn't say he signed the treaty at the desk. Only that the desk was in his apartment at the time.

I have two cupboards made in 1939 with stamps on the back featuring the eagle with swastikas underneath. Wonder what they are worth.

i always thought they were discussing holiday plans. as in peace and quiet. not peace. i somehow cant imagine adolf and eva doing easyjet, or "simplepropeller" as it would have been called then. can you imagine him running on to get a window seat?

Not much probably - I daresay there's tonnes of those about, and probably very hard to establish authenticity in any case. I've got some swastika stamped cutlery somewhere, and the notary's office I worked in had files bound in eagle and swastika emblazoned leather folders (dating back to the mid 30's). All of it not worth that much as so much of it was made.

You're sure it's an eagle and not the bailiff's cuckoo? They could have been impounded in lieu of payment and auctioned off.

Maybe, whats the bailiffs cuckoo supposed to look like? But I think it is the eagle.

Link to kza's original post about the cupboard with eagle/swastika stamps.

Yep, that's a bonafide eagle.