HARD PASS

Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ Copy Going to Auction

His own actual leather-bound copy.

Adolf Hitler’s own copy of Mein Kampf—his 1925 autobiography that outlined his political hopes for Germany and his genocidal plans for Europe’s Jews—will be sold by a Maryland auction house next week. The Fuhrer-owned copy of the infamous book was initially captured by a U.S. field artillery unit attached to the 45th Infantry Division, which discovered it at the Nazi leader’s Munich apartment. Eleven of the officers signed the first page, writing: “From Adolph Hitlers apartment in Munich on May, 2 1945.” It was kept by a soldier’s daughter until a few years ago, and will now be offered for auction with more than 1,000 other World War II-era items. Alexander Historical Auctions estimates the item will fetch between $12,000 and $15,000 at auction.