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British tycoon who sleeps in Hitler's bed and owns the world's biggest collection of Nazi memorabilia - including 88 tanks - puts his country mansion on sale for £1.95million (but he's taking it all with him)
4 March 2019
A British tycoon who sleeps in Hitler’s bed and owns the world’s biggest collection of Nazi memorabilia is selling his sprawling country mansion for £1.95million, but taking the grim haul with him.
Kevin Wheatcroft, 59, who is one of the UK’s richest businessmen with an estimated £120million fortune, keeps historic items from the Second World War in his home in Wigston, Leicestershire.
The eccentric millionaire, who also owns former Grand Prix circuit Donington Park, has spent decades adding to his collection, which includes a squadron of 88 tanks.
The magnificent property has its own library, pub, museum space and a garage big enough to house 35 vehicles. However, most of the memorabilia has been removed from the property as it goes on the market.
Mr Wheatcroft, who inherited his father's property empire, famously saved a wooden door to Hitler’s cell in Landsberg Prison where he wrote Mein Kampf which he when he befriended a group of German builders in a pub who were tasked with demolishing the building.
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