Columbus Globe for State and Industry Leaders

One of the two limited editions was looted by John Barsamian, a private in the U.S. Army, at Hitler's summer retreat shortly after the war and sold 60 years later at an auction in San Francisco for $100,000.

The globe in Hitler's office included Abyssinia as part of Italian East Africa and was known for its size as well as manufacturing cost.

Unlike the other one, Hitler's globe reflected the annexation of Abyssinia (today's Ethiopia) to Italian East Africa as a result of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.

[1] Many of the globes show Germany with a bullet hole or simply wiped out, an act committed out of contempt by either Soviet or U.S.

[4] In September 2007, historian Wolfram Pobanz declared that the copy of the giant globe with a bullet hole in the German Historical Museum in Berlin is not Hitler's, but another one that is thought to have belonged to Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Nazi foreign minister, and offered no clue as to where the globe that belonged to Hitler is today.

[1] It features in Hollywood's first satire of Hitler and the Nazis, The Three Stooges' short subject You Nazty Spy!, released in January 1940.

released in July 1941, the "Axel" partners of Moronikan dictator "Moe Hailstone" play a game of keep away with the globe.