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Article: THE NAZI TROPHY Commissioned by Hitler, contested by the Germans, won by the English and found in Scotland. So who really owns...
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- April 9, 2004
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Byline: KATE GINN
AS THEY prepared for their opening shots, the two golfers were full of anticipation that their leader Adolf Hitler would soon be there to see them triumph. Going into the final two rounds, the German pairing were a clear five shots in the lead and victory seemed assured.
Fifty miles away, Hitler allowed himself a selfsatisfied smile as he sat in the back of his Mercedes limousine on the Autobahn from Berlin, confident everything was going according to plan.
After the humiliation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics a week earlier, the Prize of the Nations golf tournament would restore the pride of the Reich.
The F[sup.1]hrer ...
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