Hitler Auction: Rare ‘Mein Kampf’ Signed By Hitler

Bidding is now open for copies of Adolf Hitler’s notorious Mein Kampf manifesto signed by the former dictator. A Los Angeles auction house was selling rare autographed copies of the book with prices starting at $20,000 to $25,000. No word on what the final bidding prices were pending completion of ales.

The reserve price was based on the sale of the Hitler-signed Mein Kampf books for $25,000 in 2012 at London’s Bonhams auction house. Those two books printed in 1925 and 1926 were the ones being sold in L.A. on Thursday.

Main Kampf was the blueprint for the Nazi movement. Hitler put forth his vision for a new Germany governed by National Socialism. The irony of the L.A. auction house selling the book is that the house was owned by a Jewish man, Nate Sanders.

Sanders said he looked at the books merely as auction items regardless of how heinous they were as literature. He defended collectors buying the Hitler books as military history fans.

While Nazi films, songs, and insignia are outlawed in Germany, Mein Kampf isn’t. The Bavarian government owns the copyright to the book but also prohibits anybody from printing or selling new copies.