Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe LONDON, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- A 1937 bottle of Moet and Chandon champagne once belonging to Adolf Hitler has sold for $2,800 despite rumors it contains cyanide. A British soldier liberated the bottle from Hitler’s wine cellar in Berlin at the end of World War II but never opened because it was rumored Nazis had injected the champagne with poisonous cyanide, The Sun in Britain reported Saturday. Advertisement Nigel Wilson, 62, inherited the bottle from the soldier 15 years ago and put it up for auction Friday in Sherborne, Dorset. The bottle was purchased for $2,000 more than its auction estimate by two Swedish TV personalities who plan to use it, but not drink it, in a program about dictators. "We certainly won’t play Russian roulette with it," said Fredrick Wikingsson, one of the new owners. "We might sell it and give the cash to a Jewish charity."
