Hitler artifact could bring $1 million

A California dealer preparing to auction the inkwell desk set used by Adolf Hitler to sign the disastrous 1938 Munich Pact says it could fetch $1 million.

Craig Gottlieb, a man of Jewish descent who trades in Nazi memorabilia from an office in Solana Beach, says the set has historical significance beyond other items he's dealt with, including Hitler's first Nazi ID card and Benito Mussolini's fez.

"That's basically the surface upon which the fate of nations was decided," he told The San Diego Union-Tribune.

Signed by Hitler, Mussolini, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier, the Munich pact gave the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia to Germany in hopes it would appease Hitler and stop his pursuit of conquest.

Hitler artifact could bring $1 million