Re: Yippee I won a Prize

Posted by Martin OToole On 2010/9/21 21:56:21

I don't know if this is true or not, but I was told that Hitler actually had only one car titled in his name. The rest were owned by the Nazi Party or the German state. Supposedly, the one he actually owned was a gift. In 1945 in was in Holland. It was taken to some some town in Kentucky after the war by an enterprising GI (Pikeville seems to stick in my mind) and displayed at a VFW hall where it was thought to have been owned by Himmler.

The VFW needed dough in the 1970s or so, and sold the car thinking it was just gas the it actually was Himmler's. Mercedes eventually confirmed it as not Himmler's but Hitler's. The car has sold several times and gets a writeup in the mass media when it does. The Texan telling the story states that the engine numbers and the body numbers are all confirmed by Mercedes.

FWIW.

Martin K. O'Toole