Hitler’s £2 Hindenburg cheque to be auctioned

A £2 charity cheque sent to Adolf Hitler and signed by the Nazi leader is expected to fetch £5,000 today at the International Autograph Auctions in Nottingham. A British woman posted it to the German chancellor in 1937 following the Hindenburg airship disaster. It carries the name of Copley’s Bank, of Old Jewry, London.

Hitler signed the back so it could be banked in Berlin and added to a fund for the bereaved families. The German airship flew across the Atlantic and burst into flames when trying to dock in New Jersey in the US. Although 62 survived, 22 crew, 13 passengers and a worker on the ground were killed.