Signed copy of Hitler's Mein Kampf sold in UK

LONDON - A signed first edition of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf was sold for £23,800 ($NZ61,530) to a private British buyer, auction house Bloomsbury said.

The book was sold at auction as part of a lot comprising a signed photo of Hitler, some of his personal thank-you cards and other stationery from high-ranking Nazis.

The lot also included a photo postcard showing Hitler and then British prime minister Neville Chamberlain at Bad Godesberg in September 1938 on the eve of the countdown to World War 2.

Hitler penned his autobiography and political manifesto when he was in Landsberg prison in the early 1920s. He had been jailed for five years for his part in a failed 1923 attempt to overthrow the government.

The work -- which translates as My Struggle -- became a must-read for German Nazis in the 1930s, especially after Hitler came to power in 1933.

Interest in Hitler and Nazi memorabilia has remained strong 60 years after he committed suicide in the ruins of Berlin.

Der Untergang (The Downfall), a German film released in 2004 about Hitler's last days in the bunker, was nominated for an Oscar.

- REUTERS