Hitler’s Entire Property Is Worth £15,000

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 October 1948, Page 5

Hitler’s Entire Property Is Worth £15,000

(Rec. 10.5 a.m.) MUNICH, Oct. 15. Hitler’s entire property, valued at over £15,000, was ordered to be confiscated by the Denazification Court, which “tried” Hitler and Eva Braun. The property will be confiscated, regardless of claims by “personal heirs.” The court declared that Hitler —if alive—a major Nazi offender, but added that all the available evidence indicated that Hitler and Braun committed suicide in 1945. Personal Property Hitler’s personal property consists of an apartment house in Munich, his mountain hide-ut at Berchtesgarden, which was destroyed by bombing during the war, and approximately 5,000,000 old reichmarks owed to the Fuehrer by Nazi publishers for sales of “Mein Kampf.” The court said that Braun was not a Nazi Party member, but derived “personal advantages through her intimate relation” with Htiler. The court also said that “Eva Braun was Adolf Hitler’s concubine.” Her property, consisting of a small four-room villa in Munich, was purchased by Hitler in 1935 for 35,000 reichmarks and registered in Eva’s name. Hitler’s property will go to the State of Bavaria and Braun’s house to a restitution fund for the benefit of victims of Nazism. The small courtroom was jammed with spectators. The only witness was Adolf Widmann, architect, who testified about the sale of Braun’s • Munich villa.

Hitler’s Will The prosecutor introduced a photostatic copy of Hitler’s will, which was written at 4 a.m. on May 29, 1945, in the bunker of the Reich Chancellery, Berlin, and signed by Hitler, Goebbels and Bormann. The prosecutor also introduced a photostatic copy of the Hitler-Braun ' marriage certificate. Hitler left his possessions to the Nazi Party, “or, if this no longer exists, to the State.”