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.
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.
Mr Wheatcroft 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.
Kevin Wheatcroft, 59, is one of the UK’s richest businessmen with an estimated £120million fortune and keeps items the historic and controversial items from the Second World War in his home
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 in Leicestershire
A huge conservatory in the large mansion that is on the market. The eccentric, who also owns former Grand Prix circuit Donington Park, has spent decades adding to his collection, which includes a squadron of 88 tanks
The property, which has its own library, pub, museum space and garage big enough to store 35 vehicles, is now on the market for £1.95million
Forgotten army: The tycoon's memorabilia collection includes these mannequins dressed in Nazi-era uniforms
Mr Wheatcroft has been collecting Nazi memorabilia since he was five. Pictured is another item of uniform in his haul
Two eagles sitting atop of Nazi swastikas were once displayed alongside paintings and sketches in the tycoon's home
He displayed part of his huge collection of Nazi memorabilia, which includes and owns dozens of sketches and signed photos by Hitler, at his sprawling Seven Oaks House estate in Wigston, Leicestershire.
Other memorabilia includes dozens of mannequins in Nazi uniform - including Hitler Youth, SS officers, Wehrmacht - a scale model of Hitler’s Kehlsteinhaus mountain eyrie, a twisted machine-gun from Rudolf Hess’s crashed Bf110 (in which he flew to Scotland), the commandant’s phone from Buchenwald and Enigma machines.
The 11,000 square foot property also has its own gym, swimming pool, wine cellar, snooker room and even a nuclear bunker.
It also has a two-storey library which Mr Wheatcroft had built specially with an octagonal viewing platform.
The 11,000 square foot property also has its own gym, swimming pool, wine cellar, snooker room and even a nuclear bunker
The property, which has its own library, pub, museum space and garage big enough to store 35 vehicles, is now on the market for £1.95million
A kitchen with oaks fittings and marble counters in the magnificent mansion. Dozens of mannequins in Nazi uniform - including Hitler Youth, SS officers, Wehrmacht - are kept in the house
A huge entrance hall with exposed brickwork. Mr Wheatcroft looks after his vast collection in his sprawling mansion once owned by his late father who made millions in the post-war boom
In the drawing room sits Eva Braun’s gramophone and record collection sits and in the snooker room a selection of Hitler’s furniture is housed which was salvaged from Austria.
Mr Wheatcroft looks after his vast collection in his sprawling mansion once owned by his late father who made millions in the post-war boom and spent his life indulging in motor cars.
Mr Wheatcroft's home appears to have been stripped of his extensive collection ahead of being put up for sale
The property boasts five bedrooms, one of which is pictured above. There are also a further two self-contained apartments
In the dining room he keeps fugitive SS physician Josef Mengele’s grandfather clock, topped with a bear which he smuggled out of Aregntina prestening it was tractor parts headed for a factory in Coventry.
And by a spiral staircase, Wheatcroft keeps a full-length portrait of Hitler which was the favourite image of himself and he used it for stamps and official reproductions.
The property, which has landscaped courtyard gardens, is being sold by Leicestershire-based Bentons.
Mr Wheatcroft's palatial five-bedroom home in rural Leicestershire features this intricate spiral staircase
In the drawing room sits Eva Braun’s gramophone and record collection sits and in the snooker room a selection of Hitler’s furniture is housed which was salvaged from Austria
The property, which has landscaped courtyard gardens, is being sold by Leicestershire-based Bentons
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Main photo article 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.
Kevin Wheatcroft, 59, who is one of the UK’s richest businessmen with an estimated £120million fortune, keeps historic items from the ...
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