希特勒下達戰令專用電話拍賣成交價逾24萬美元

Adolf Hitler's telephone was sold at auction in the United States for $243,000. The winning bid was made by phone but the name of the bidder has not been released.

阿道夫·希特勒的電話於日前在美國以24.3萬美元的價格拍出。投標人是通過電話中標的，但其名字未被公佈。

The phone was presented to Hitler by the Wehrmacht and was used by the Nazi leader to issue most of his commands during the last two years of World War II, according to a description in the catalog for Alexander Historical Auctions in Maryland.

根據馬里蘭亞歷山大史料拍賣行的目錄描述，這部電話是由納粹德國國防軍送給希特勒的，在第二次世界大戰的最後兩年，這位納粹領導人就是通過這部電話發佈的大部分命令。

The phone was recovered from the Fuhrerbunker in 1945 and has been kept in a box in an English country house ever since.

這部電話於1945年在希特勒地堡被找到，此後便一直被保存在英國農村房屋內的一個箱子裏。

Made by Siemens as a black Bakelite phone, it was later painted red and engraved with Hitler's name and a swastika, the catalog says.

目錄介紹道，它起初是由西門子製造的一部黑色膠木電話，隨後被塗成紅色，並刻上了希特勒的名字和納粹標誌。

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The auction house describes the telephone as "Hitler's mobile device of destruction" and called it "arguably the most destructive 'weapon' of all time, which sent millions to their deaths around the world."

拍賣行將這部電話描述成“希特勒的破壞性移動設備”，並稱其“毋庸置疑是史上最具破壞性的'武器'，它導致了全世界數百萬人喪生。”

British officer Ralph Rayner recovered the phone from Hitler's bunker while visiting Berlin on the orders of Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery just a few days after the end of the war, according to the auction house.

據拍賣行介紹，英國軍官拉爾夫·雷納在戰後幾天奉菲爾德·馬歇爾·伯納德·蒙哥馬利之命訪問柏林時，從希特勒的地堡中找到了這部電話。

His son Ranulf Rayner, 82, inherited the phone after his father's death in 1977.

他的兒子、現年82歲的拉努夫·雷納在其父親1977年去世時繼承了這部電話。

"My father didn't see it as a relic of Hitler's glory days, more a battered remnant of his defeat, a sort of war trophy," he told CNN. "He never thought it would become an important artifact."

“我的父親並不將其視作希特勒輝煌歲月的一件遺物，它更像是希特勒戰敗的破舊遺物和自己的一個戰利品，”拉努夫向CNN透露。“他從來沒有覺得這部電話會成爲一個重要的遺物。”