Hitler's Eagle's Nest Silverware - Serving Knife. Complete with copy of affidavit stating:

"On or about May 8, 1945, while I was on duty with the 402d Field Artillery Battalion of the 42d Infantry Division, my driver, Thomas Lambros, and I were at Berchtesgaden, Germany. Since we were well aware of the fact that Adolph Hitler had a "retreat" at Berchtesgaden, we went to his "house" to look for souvenirs. The house had been almost demolished by bombing.

While searching through the rubble for souvenirs, I found almost everything in the house had been destroyed but I did find two crystal goblets which had not been smashed.

My driver, Lambros, was also searching and he found a place on the ground at the rear of the house where he thought something had been buried. We dug in this area and found wrapped in protective covering approximately 375 pieces of sterling silver with the Nazi Eagle and Swastika on them. some of the pieces were partially gold plated. While we were exulting over our discovery, another member of the 402d Artillery Battalion came by and we ended up splitting our find three ways."

Hitler's Eagle's Nest Silverware - Spoon. Complete with copy of affidavit stating:

"On or about May 8, 1945, while I was on duty with the 402d Field Artillery Battalion of the 42d Infantry Division, my driver, Thomas Lambros, and I were at Berchtesgaden, Germany. Since we were well aware of the fact that Adolph Hitler had a "retreat" at Berchtesgaden, we went to his "house" to look for souvenirs. The house had been almost demolished by bombing.

While searching through the rubble for souvenirs, I found almost everything in the house had been destroyed but I did find two crystal goblets which had not been smashed.

My driver, Lambros, was also searching and he found a place on the ground at the rear of the house where he thought something had been buried. We dug in this area and found wrapped in protective covering approximately 375 pieces of sterling silver with the Nazi Eagle and Swastika on them. some of the pieces were partially gold plated. While we were exulting over our discovery, another member of the 402d Artillery Battalion came by and we ended up splitting our find three ways."

Hitler's Eagle's Nest Silverware - Desert Fork. Complete with copy of affidavit stating:

"On or about May 8, 1945, while I was on duty with the 402d Field Artillery Battalion of the 42d Infantry Division, my driver, Thomas Lambros, and I were at Berchtesgaden, Germany. Since we were well aware of the fact that Adolph Hitler had a "retreat" at Berchtesgaden, we went to his "house" to look for souvenirs. The house had been almost demolished by bombing.

While searching through the rubble for souvenirs, I found almost everything in the house had been destroyed but I did find two crystal goblets which had not been smashed.

My driver, Lambros, was also searching and he found a place on the ground at the rear of the house where he thought something had been buried. We dug in this area and found wrapped in protective covering approximately 375 pieces of sterling silver with the Nazi Eagle and Swastika on them. some of the pieces were partially gold plated. While we were exulting over our discovery, another member of the 402d Artillery Battalion came by and we ended up splitting our find three ways."

Hitler's Eagle's Nest Silverware - Serving Spoon. Complete with copy of affidavit stating:

"On or about May 8, 1945, while I was on duty with the 402d Field Artillery Battalion of the 42d Infantry Division, my driver, Thomas Lambros, and I were at Berchtesgaden, Germany. Since we were well aware of the fact that Adolph Hitler had a "retreat" at Berchtesgaden, we went to his "house" to look for souvenirs. The house had been almost demolished by bombing.

While searching through the rubble for souvenirs, I found almost everything in the house had been destroyed but I did find two crystal goblets which had not been smashed.

My driver, Lambros, was also searching and he found a place on the ground at the rear of the house where he thought something had been buried. We dug in this area and found wrapped in protective covering approximately 375 pieces of sterling silver with the Nazi Eagle and Swastika on them. some of the pieces were partially gold plated. While we were exulting over our discovery, another member of the 402d Artillery Battalion came by and we ended up splitting our find three ways."

Hitler's Eagle's Nest Silverware - Serving Spoon. Complete with copy of affidavit stating:

"On or about May 8, 1945, while I was on duty with the 402d Field Artillery Battalion of the 42d Infantry Division, my driver, Thomas Lambros, and I were at Berchtesgaden, Germany. Since we were well aware of the fact that Adolph Hitler had a "retreat" at Berchtesgaden, we went to his "house" to look for souvenirs. The house had been almost demolished by bombing.

While searching through the rubble for souvenirs, I found almost everything in the house had been destroyed but I did find two crystal goblets which had not been smashed.

My driver, Lambros, was also searching and he found a place on the ground at the rear of the house where he thought something had been buried. We dug in this area and found wrapped in protective covering approximately 375 pieces of sterling silver with the Nazi Eagle and Swastika on them. some of the pieces were partially gold plated. While we were exulting over our discovery, another member of the 402d Artillery Battalion came by and we ended up splitting our find three ways."

Hitler's Personal Train Silver Egg Cup complete with copy of Notarized letter stating:

"Silver Recovered from Adolf Hitler's Train

I, William Lee, am the son of the late Col. Ernest "Tex" Lee, who served at Executive Officer and aide-de-camp to Supreme Allied Commander (and later President) Dwight E. Eisenhower for the duration of the latter's service in that capacity during World War II.

This silver was in my family's possession for the time he returned from Europe at the end of hostilities until his death. Following his passing, the items remained in locked storage under direct family supervision.

My father related to family members that he had obtained the silver from Hitler's train and believed it to be a fitting collection of "war booty" which he thought worthy of keeping retaining as souvenirs of his service in the war.

To the best of my knowledge these egg cups were recovered directly from Adolf Hitler's private train. As my family has no further desire to keep them, we hope that they may find a place in the collection of an avid collector or institution.

Respectfully,
[signed]
William Lee"

Silver plated dinner fork owned by Martin Bormann, Hitler secretary and many think second in command.  Rare pattern with engraved M over B.

Reich Leader and Head of the Party Chancellery

In October 1933, Bormann became a Reich Leader (Reichsleiter) of the NSDAP, and in November, a member of the Reichstag. From July 1933 until 1941, Bormann served as the personal secretary for Rudolf Hess. Bormann commissioned the building of the Kehlsteinhaus (Eagle's Nest). The Kehlsteinhaus was formally presented to Hitler on 20 April 1938, after 13 months of expensive construction, and is commemorated on a plaque just above the entrance to the tunnel to the lift up to the Eagle's Nest. During this period, Bormann had also managed Hitler's finances through various schemes such as royalties collected on Hitler's book, his image on postage stamps, as well as setting up an "Adolf Hitler Endowment Fund of German Industry", which was really a thinly veiled extortion attempt on the behalf of Hitler to collect more money from German industrialists.

In May 1941, the flight of Hess to Britain cleared the way for Bormann to become Head of the Party Chancellery (Parteikanzlei) that same month. Bormann proved to be a master of intricate political infighting; his mastery of such infighting along with his access and closeness to Hitler, and because of the trust Hitler held in him, he was able to constantly and effectively check and thus make enemies of Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Goring, Heinrich Himmler, Alfred Rosenberg, Robert Ley, Albert Speer and a plethora of other high-ranking officers and officials, both public and private. The ruthless and continuous intriguing for power, influence, and favor from Hitler within the regime came to characterize the inner workings of the Third Reich.

Bormann took charge of all Hitler's paperwork, appointments and personal finances. Hitler came to have complete trust in Bormann and the view of reality he presented. During a meeting, Hitler was said to have screamed, "To win this war, I need Bormann!". Many historians have suggested Bormann held so much power that, in some respects, he became Germany's "secret leader" during the war. A collection of transcripts edited by Bormann during the war appeared in print in 1951 as Hitler's Table Talk 1941-1944, mostly a re-telling of Hitler's wartime dinner conversations.

Bormann's bureaucratic power and effective reach broadened considerably by 1942. Faced with the imminent demise of the Third Reich, he systematically went about the organizing of German corporate flight capital, and set up off-shore holding companies and business interests in close coordination with the same Ruhr industrialists and German bankers who, although often not Nazis, had helped to facilitate Hitler's explosive rise to power 10 years before.

In February 1943, the crushing German defeat at the Battle of Stalingrad produced a crisis in the regime. Bormann exploited the disaster at Stalingrad, and his daily access to Hitler, to persuade him to create a three-man junta representing the State, the Army and the Party, represented respectively by Hans Lammers, head of the Reich Chancellery, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the OKW (armed forces high command), and Bormann, who controlled the Party and access to the Fuhrer. This Committee of Three would exercise dictatorial powers over the home front. Goebbels, Speer, Goring and Himmler all saw this proposal as a power grab by Bormann and a threat to their power, and combined to block it.

However, their alliance was shaky at best. This was mainly due to the fact that during this period Himmler was still cooperating with Bormann to gain more power at the expense of Goring and most of the traditional Reich administration; Goring's loss of power had resulted in an overindulgence in the trappings of power and his strained relations with Goebbels made it difficult for a unified coalition to be formed, despite the attempts of Speer and Goring's Luftwaffe deputy Field Marshal Erhard Milch, to reconcile the two Party comrades.

However, the result was that nothing was done-the Committee of Three declined into irrelevance due to the loss of power by Keitel and Lammers and the ascension of Bormann and the situation continued to drift, with administrative chaos increasingly undermining the war effort. The ultimate responsibility for this lay with Hitler, as Goebbels well knew, referring in his diary to a "crisis of leadership," but Goebbels was too much under Hitler's spell ever to challenge his power.

At the Nuremberg Trials, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, the Reich Commissioner for the Netherlands, testified that he had called Bormann to confirm an order to deport the Dutch Jews to Auschwitz, and further testified that Bormann passed along Hitler's orders for the extermination of Jews during the Holocaust. A telephone conversation between Bormann and Heinrich Himmler, who was his main antagonist in the struggle for power within the Nazi elite, was overheard by telephone operators during which Himmler reported to Bormann about the extermination of 40,000 Jews in Poland. Himmler was sharply rebuked for using the word "exterminated" rather than the codeword "resettled," and Bormann ordered the apologetic Himmler never again to report on this by phone but through SS couriers.

Silver plated salad fork from the DER DEUTSCHE HOF hotel, in Numerberg, Germany, where Hitler stayed at the annual party meeting. Swastika surrounded by wreath engraved on fork. Adolf Hitler was reported to have stayed at the "Der Deutsche Hof" when he was visiting Numerberg. The piece has the name "Der Deutsche Hof" stamped on the underside.  The makers name, "BSF90", is stamped into the stem.
No additional documentation.

Silver plated dinner knife owned by Martin Bormann, Hitler secretary and many think second in command.  Rare pattern with engraved M over B and makers name NICHT ROSTEND on blade.

Reich Leader and Head of the Party Chancellery

In October 1933, Bormann became a Reich Leader (Reichsleiter) of the NSDAP, and in November, a member of the Reichstag. From July 1933 until 1941, Bormann served as the personal secretary for Rudolf Hess. Bormann commissioned the building of the Kehlsteinhaus (Eagle's Nest). The Kehlsteinhaus was formally presented to Hitler on 20 April 1938, after 13 months of expensive construction, and is commemorated on a plaque just above the entrance to the tunnel to the lift up to the Eagle's Nest. During this period, Bormann had also managed Hitler's finances through various schemes such as royalties collected on Hitler's book, his image on postage stamps, as well as setting up an "Adolf Hitler Endowment Fund of German Industry", which was really a thinly veiled extortion attempt on the behalf of Hitler to collect more money from German industrialists.

In May 1941, the flight of Hess to Britain cleared the way for Bormann to become Head of the Party Chancellery (Parteikanzlei) that same month. Bormann proved to be a master of intricate political infighting; his mastery of such infighting along with his access and closeness to Hitler, and because of the trust Hitler held in him, he was able to constantly and effectively check and thus make enemies of Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Goring, Heinrich Himmler, Alfred Rosenberg, Robert Ley, Albert Speer and a plethora of other high-ranking officers and officials, both public and private. The ruthless and continuous intriguing for power, influence, and favor from Hitler within the regime came to characterize the inner workings of the Third Reich.

Bormann took charge of all Hitler's paperwork, appointments and personal finances. Hitler came to have complete trust in Bormann and the view of reality he presented. During a meeting, Hitler was said to have screamed, "To win this war, I need Bormann!". Many historians have suggested Bormann held so much power that, in some respects, he became Germany's "secret leader" during the war. A collection of transcripts edited by Bormann during the war appeared in print in 1951 as Hitler's Table Talk 1941-1944, mostly a re-telling of Hitler's wartime dinner conversations.

Bormann's bureaucratic power and effective reach broadened considerably by 1942. Faced with the imminent demise of the Third Reich, he systematically went about the organizing of German corporate flight capital, and set up off-shore holding companies and business interests in close coordination with the same Ruhr industrialists and German bankers who, although often not Nazis, had helped to facilitate Hitler's explosive rise to power 10 years before.

In February 1943, the crushing German defeat at the Battle of Stalingrad produced a crisis in the regime. Bormann exploited the disaster at Stalingrad, and his daily access to Hitler, to persuade him to create a three-man junta representing the State, the Army and the Party, represented respectively by Hans Lammers, head of the Reich Chancellery, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the OKW (armed forces high command), and Bormann, who controlled the Party and access to the Fuhrer. This Committee of Three would exercise dictatorial powers over the home front. Goebbels, Speer, Goring and Himmler all saw this proposal as a power grab by Bormann and a threat to their power, and combined to block it.

However, their alliance was shaky at best. This was mainly due to the fact that during this period Himmler was still cooperating with Bormann to gain more power at the expense of Goring and most of the traditional Reich administration; Goring's loss of power had resulted in an overindulgence in the trappings of power and his strained relations with Goebbels made it difficult for a unified coalition to be formed, despite the attempts of Speer and Goring's Luftwaffe deputy Field Marshal Erhard Milch, to reconcile the two Party comrades.

However, the result was that nothing was done-the Committee of Three declined into irrelevance due to the loss of power by Keitel and Lammers and the ascension of Bormann and the situation continued to drift, with administrative chaos increasingly undermining the war effort. The ultimate responsibility for this lay with Hitler, as Goebbels well knew, referring in his diary to a "crisis of leadership," but Goebbels was too much under Hitler's spell ever to challenge his power.

At the Nuremberg Trials, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, the Reich Commissioner for the Netherlands, testified that he had called Bormann to confirm an order to deport the Dutch Jews to Auschwitz, and further testified that Bormann passed along Hitler's orders for the extermination of Jews during the Holocaust. A telephone conversation between Bormann and Heinrich Himmler, who was his main antagonist in the struggle for power within the Nazi elite, was overheard by telephone operators during which Himmler reported to Bormann about the extermination of 40,000 Jews in Poland. Himmler was sharply rebuked for using the word "exterminated" rather than the codeword "resettled," and Bormann ordered the apologetic Himmler never again to report on this by phone but through SS couriers.

Very rare railroad knife from Hitler's train group, without papers, but with the correct number 244 stamped on handle. Has the an eagle holding a wreathed swastika and the letters DR.

Hermann Goring butter knife with his Coat of Arms engraved on the handle. Has the manufacturer's name "BRUCKMANN 90" stamped on the back of the stem. RAR

Silver plated spoon owned by Albert Speer, Hitler's main architect.

Speer supported the German invasion of Poland and subsequent war, though he recognized that it would lead to the postponement, at the least, of his architectural dreams. In his later years, Speer, talking with his biographer-to-be Gitta Sereny, explained how he felt in 1939: "Of course I was perfectly aware that [Hitler] sought world domination ... [A]t that time I asked for nothing better. That was the whole point of my buildings. They would have looked grotesque if Hitler had sat still in Germany. All I wanted was for this great man to dominate the globe."

Speer placed his department at the disposal of the Wehrmacht. When Hitler remonstrated, and said it was not for Speer to decide how his workers should be used, Speer simply ignored him. Among Speer's innovations were quick-reaction squads to construct roads or clear away debris; before long, these units would be used to clear bomb sites. As the war progressed, initially to great German success, Speer continued preliminary work on the Berlin and Nuremberg plans, at Hitler's insistence, but failed to convince him of the need to suspend peacetime construction projects. Speer also oversaw the construction of buildings for the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe, and developed a considerable organization to deal with this work.

In 1940, Joseph Stalin proposed that Speer pay a visit to Moscow. Stalin had been particularly impressed by Speer's work in Paris, and wished to meet the "Architect of the Reich". Hitler, alternating between amusement and anger, did not allow Speer to go, fearing that Stalin would put Speer in a "rat hole" until a new Moscow arose. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Speer came to doubt, despite Hitler's reassurances, that his projects for Berlin would ever be completed.

Silver Plated Spoon owned by Albert Speer, Hitler's Main Architect with A over S engraved on handle.

Speer supported the German invasion of Poland and subsequent war, though he recognized that it would lead to the postponement, at the least, of his architectural dreams. In his later years, Speer, talking with his biographer-to-be Gitta Sereny, explained how he felt in 1939: "Of course I was perfectly aware that [Hitler] sought world domination ... [A]t that time I asked for nothing better. That was the whole point of my buildings. They would have looked grotesque if Hitler had sat still in Germany. All I wanted was for this great man to dominate the globe."

Speer placed his department at the disposal of the Wehrmacht. When Hitler remonstrated, and said it was not for Speer to decide how his workers should be used, Speer simply ignored him. Among Speer's innovations were quick-reaction squads to construct roads or clear away debris; before long, these units would be used to clear bomb sites. As the war progressed, initially to great German success, Speer continued preliminary work on the Berlin and Nuremberg plans, at Hitler's insistence, but failed to convince him of the need to suspend peacetime construction projects. Speer also oversaw the construction of buildings for the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe, and developed a considerable organization to deal with this work.

In 1940, Joseph Stalin proposed that Speer pay a visit to Moscow. Stalin had been particularly impressed by Speer's work in Paris, and wished to meet the "Architect of the Reich". Hitler, alternating between amusement and anger, did not allow Speer to go, fearing that Stalin would put Speer in a "rat hole" until a new Moscow arose. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Speer came to doubt, despite Hitler's reassurances, that his projects for Berlin would ever be completed.

Albert Speer formal dinner spoon. Rare with fancy monogram A over S on reverse.
Speer supported the German invasion of Poland and subsequent war, though he recognized that it would lead to the postponement, at the least, of his architectural dreams. In his later years, Speer, talking with his biographer-to-be Gitta Sereny, explained how he felt in 1939: "Of course I was perfectly aware that [Hitler] sought world domination ... [A]t that time I asked for nothing better. That was the whole point of my buildings. They would have looked grotesque if Hitler had sat still in Germany. All I wanted was for this great man to dominate the globe."

Speer placed his department at the disposal of the Wehrmacht. When Hitler remonstrated, and said it was not for Speer to decide how his workers should be used, Speer simply ignored him. Among Speer's innovations were quick-reaction squads to construct roads or clear away debris; before long, these units would be used to clear bomb sites. As the war progressed, initially to great German success, Speer continued preliminary work on the Berlin and Nuremberg plans, at Hitler's insistence, but failed to convince him of the need to suspend peacetime construction projects. Speer also oversaw the construction of buildings for the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe, and developed a considerable organization to deal with this work.

In 1940, Joseph Stalin proposed that Speer pay a visit to Moscow. Stalin had been particularly impressed by Speer's work in Paris, and wished to meet the "Architect of the Reich". Hitler, alternating between amusement and anger, did not allow Speer to go, fearing that Stalin would put Speer in a "rat hole" until a new Moscow arose. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Speer came to doubt, despite Hitler's reassurances, that his projects for Berlin would ever be completed.

Hitler's Eagle's Nest Silverware - Dinner Fork. Complete with copy of affidavit stating:

"On or about May 8, 1945, while I was on duty with the 402d Field Artillery Battalion of the 42d Infantry Division, my driver, Thomas Lambros, and I were at Berchtesgaden, Germany. Since we were well aware of the fact that Adolph Hitler had a "retreat" at Berchtesgaden, we went to his "house" to look for souvenirs. The house had been almost demolished by bombing.

While searching through the rubble for souvenirs, I found almost everything in the house had been destroyed but I did find two crystal goblets which had not been smashed.

My driver, Lambros, was also searching and he found a place on the ground at the rear of the house where he thought something had been buried. We dug in this area and found wrapped in protective covering approximately 375 pieces of sterling silver with the Nazi Eagle and Swastika on them. some of the pieces were partially gold plated. While we were exulting over our discovery, another member of the 402d Artillery Battalion came by and we ended up splitting our find three ways."

Hitler's Eagle's Nest Silverware - Salad Fork. Complete with copy of affidavit stating:

"On or about May 8, 1945, while I was on duty with the 402d Field Artillery Battalion of the 42d Infantry Division, my driver, Thomas Lambros, and I were at Berchtesgaden, Germany. Since we were well aware of the fact that Adolph Hitler had a "retreat" at Berchtesgaden, we went to his "house" to look for souvenirs. The house had been almost demolished by bombing.

While searching through the rubble for souvenirs, I found almost everything in the house had been destroyed but I did find two crystal goblets which had not been smashed.

My driver, Lambros, was also searching and he found a place on the ground at the rear of the house where he thought something had been buried. We dug in this area and found wrapped in protective covering approximately 375 pieces of sterling silver with the Nazi Eagle and Swastika on them. some of the pieces were partially gold plated. While we were exulting over our discovery, another member of the 402d Artillery Battalion came by and we ended up splitting our find three ways."

Hitler's Eagle's Nest Silverware - Dessert Fork. Complete with copy of affidavit stating:

"On or about May 8, 1945, while I was on duty with the 402d Field Artillery Battalion of the 42d Infantry Division, my driver, Thomas Lambros, and I were at Berchtesgaden, Germany. Since we were well aware of the fact that Adolph Hitler had a "retreat" at Berchtesgaden, we went to his "house" to look for souvenirs. The house had been almost demolished by bombing.

While searching through the rubble for souvenirs, I found almost everything in the house had been destroyed but I did find two crystal goblets which had not been smashed.

My driver, Lambros, was also searching and he found a place on the ground at the rear of the house where he thought something had been buried. We dug in this area and found wrapped in protective covering approximately 375 pieces of sterling silver with the Nazi Eagle and Swastika on them. some of the pieces were partially gold plated. While we were exulting over our discovery, another member of the 402d Artillery Battalion came by and we ended up splitting our find three ways."

Hitler's Eagle's Nest Silverware - Dinner Fork. Complete with copy of affidavit stating:

"On or about May 8, 1945, while I was on duty with the 402d Field Artillery Battalion of the 42d Infantry Division, my driver, Thomas Lambros, and I were at Berchtesgaden, Germany. Since we were well aware of the fact that Adolph Hitler had a "retreat" at Berchtesgaden, we went to his "house" to look for souvenirs. The house had been almost demolished by bombing.

While searching through the rubble for souvenirs, I found almost everything in the house had been destroyed but I did find two crystal goblets which had not been smashed.

My driver, Lambros, was also searching and he found a place on the ground at the rear of the house where he thought something had been buried. We dug in this area and found wrapped in protective covering approximately 375 pieces of sterling silver with the Nazi Eagle and Swastika on them. some of the pieces were partially gold plated. While we were exulting over our discovery, another member of the 402d Artillery Battalion came by and we ended up splitting our find three ways."

Hitler's Eagle's Nest Silverware - Butter Knife. Complete with copy of affidavit stating:

"On or about May 8, 1945, while I was on duty with the 402d Field Artillery Battalion of the 42d Infantry Division, my driver, Thomas Lambros, and I were at Berchtesgaden, Germany. Since we were well aware of the fact that Adolph Hitler had a "retreat" at Berchtesgaden, we went to his "house" to look for souvenirs. The house had been almost demolished by bombing.

While searching through the rubble for souvenirs, I found almost everything in the house had been destroyed but I did find two crystal goblets which had not been smashed.

My driver, Lambros, was also searching and he found a place on the ground at the rear of the house where he thought something had been buried. We dug in this area and found wrapped in protective covering approximately 375 pieces of sterling silver with the Nazi Eagle and Swastika on them. some of the pieces were partially gold plated. While we were exulting over our discovery, another member of the 402d Artillery Battalion came by and we ended up splitting our find three ways."

Hitler's Eagle's Nest Silverware - Dinner Knife. Complete with copy of affidavit stating:

"On or about May 8, 1945, while I was on duty with the 402d Field Artillery Battalion of the 42d Infantry Division, my driver, Thomas Lambros, and I were at Berchtesgaden, Germany. Since we were well aware of the fact that Adolph Hitler had a "retreat" at Berchtesgaden, we went to his "house" to look for souvenirs. The house had been almost demolished by bombing.

While searching through the rubble for souvenirs, I found almost everything in the house had been destroyed but I did find two crystal goblets which had not been smashed.

My driver, Lambros, was also searching and he found a place on the ground at the rear of the house where he thought something had been buried. We dug in this area and found wrapped in protective covering approximately 375 pieces of sterling silver with the Nazi Eagle and Swastika on them. some of the pieces were partially gold plated. While we were exulting over our discovery, another member of the 402d Artillery Battalion came by and we ended up splitting our find three ways."

Hitler's Eagle's Nest Silverware - Luncheon Knife. Complete with copy of affidavit stating:

"On or about May 8, 1945, while I was on duty with the 402d Field Artillery Battalion of the 42d Infantry Division, my driver, Thomas Lambros, and I were at Berchtesgaden, Germany. Since we were well aware of the fact that Adolph Hitler had a "retreat" at Berchtesgaden, we went to his "house" to look for souvenirs. The house had been almost demolished by bombing.

While searching through the rubble for souvenirs, I found almost everything in the house had been destroyed but I did find two crystal goblets which had not been smashed.

My driver, Lambros, was also searching and he found a place on the ground at the rear of the house where he thought something had been buried. We dug in this area and found wrapped in protective covering approximately 375 pieces of sterling silver with the Nazi Eagle and Swastika on them. some of the pieces were partially gold plated. While we were exulting over our discovery, another member of the 402d Artillery Battalion came by and we ended up splitting our find three ways."

Hitler's Eagle's Nest Silverware - Cream Spoon. Complete with copy of affidavit stating:

"On or about May 8, 1945, while I was on duty with the 402d Field Artillery Battalion of the 42d Infantry Division, my driver, Thomas Lambros, and I were at Berchtesgaden, Germany. Since we were well aware of the fact that Adolph Hitler had a "retreat" at Berchtesgaden, we went to his "house" to look for souvenirs. The house had been almost demolished by bombing.

While searching through the rubble for souvenirs, I found almost everything in the house had been destroyed but I did find two crystal goblets which had not been smashed.

My driver, Lambros, was also searching and he found a place on the ground at the rear of the house where he thought something had been buried. We dug in this area and found wrapped in protective covering approximately 375 pieces of sterling silver with the Nazi Eagle and Swastika on them. some of the pieces were partially gold plated. While we were exulting over our discovery, another member of the 402d Artillery Battalion came by and we ended up splitting our find three ways."

Hitler's Eagle's Nest Silverware - Dessert Spoon with Gold Wash. Complete with copy of affidavit stating:

"On or about May 8, 1945, while I was on duty with the 402d Field Artillery Battalion of the 42d Infantry Division, my driver, Thomas Lambros, and I were at Berchtesgaden, Germany. Since we were well aware of the fact that Adolph Hitler had a "retreat" at Berchtesgaden, we went to his "house" to look for souvenirs. The house had been almost demolished by bombing.

While searching through the rubble for souvenirs, I found almost everything in the house had been destroyed but I did find two crystal goblets which had not been smashed.

My driver, Lambros, was also searching and he found a place on the ground at the rear of the house where he thought something had been buried. We dug in this area and found wrapped in protective covering approximately 375 pieces of sterling silver with the Nazi Eagle and Swastika on them. some of the pieces were partially gold plated. While we were exulting over our discovery, another member of the 402d Artillery Battalion came by and we ended up splitting our find three ways."

Hitler's Eagle's Nest Silverware - Soup Spoon. Complete with copy of affidavit stating:

"On or about May 8, 1945, while I was on duty with the 402d Field Artillery Battalion of the 42d Infantry Division, my driver, Thomas Lambros, and I were at Berchtesgaden, Germany. Since we were well aware of the fact that Adolph Hitler had a "retreat" at Berchtesgaden, we went to his "house" to look for souvenirs. The house had been almost demolished by bombing.

While searching through the rubble for souvenirs, I found almost everything in the house had been destroyed but I did find two crystal goblets which had not been smashed.

My driver, Lambros, was also searching and he found a place on the ground at the rear of the house where he thought something had been buried. We dug in this area and found wrapped in protective covering approximately 375 pieces of sterling silver with the Nazi Eagle and Swastika on them. some of the pieces were partially gold plated. While we were exulting over our discovery, another member of the 402d Artillery Battalion came by and we ended up splitting our find three ways."

This creamer is from the hotel service ware from none other than the famous Hotel Deutscher Hof in Nuremberg. This was the hotel where Adolf Hitler and all the high party functionaries stayed during the days of the Reichsparteitag, (party rallies) in Nuremberg (Der Stadt der Reichsparteitag). This was the only hotel that the Führer would headquarter himself. Over the years it became known as the official Nazi hotel. In keeping with this, sometime in 1935, the hotel commissary decided that all the tableware that would hitherto be ordered should typically bear the symbol of the NSDAP (the swastika!) and you will see it on all pieces wreathed in oak-leaf design. Some pieces had the name “Der Deutsche Hof,” but all pieces had this swastika in the wreath. The pieces we have are well used, but fully intact. The usage shown is of course a good thing as you can be (proof positive) that these items were used by the high NSDAP leaders, and probably by the Führer, himself. Some of these items that invariably show up are usually the creamers, and coffeepots and teapots. Adolf Hitler liked this location near the Hauptbahnhof (railroad station) and he had a large room on the second floor with windows from which he could review marching units of the SS, SA, HJ, and RAD as they snappily paraded before him prior to the rally.