Article: POISONED CHALICE; It toasted the Holocaust, figured in a dog kidnap and is now for sale at [pounds sterling]2m. The extraordinary story of the Nazi relic hidden in a loft in Sunderland for 50 years.

Byline: GLENYS ROBERTS

FOR the young British soldier, it was a temptation too great to resist.

Eagerly he grasped the silver chalice from the rubble where it was partially buried and wrapped it in a piece of blue velvet curtain torn from a nearby window.

Taking care that no one was watching him, George Armstrong stowed it in his backpack.

A Private in the Royal Signal Corps, he was one of the first British soldiers to arrive at Karin Hall Lodge, the luxurious country home of Hitler's deputy, Hermann Goering.

Here the Nazi stored his personal treasures and the plundered riches of the Third Reich.

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