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Authorities in Washington state have recovered a stolen 18-carat-gold bookmark that reportedly was given to Adolf Hitler by his longtime mistress, Eva Braun.
Christian Popescu, a Romanian national, was arrested Tuesday outside a Bellevue, Wash., Starbucks after trying to sell the bookmark to an undercover agent for $100,000, according to papers filed in U.S. District Court.
Federal prosecutors said the bookmark was among items taken in an auction-house heist in Madrid, Spain, six years ago. The bookmark is engraved with a portrait of Hitler as well as an imperial eagle and swastika. Its inscription indicates that Braun gave it to Hitler to console him after German forces surrendered at Stalingrad.
