Adolf Hitler’s toilet seat is expected to fetch around £15,000 at an upcoming auction. A US soldier grabbed the curious keepsake from the Nazi leader’s private bathroom in his holiday home in the Bavarian Alps. And now his family has decided to cash in on the toilet seat at an auction in Maryland. The auction company said: “One can scarcely imagine the plotting the tyrant undertook while contemplating the world from atop this perch.”
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