Charterhouse valuer, Chris Copson said, they believed the bottle was retrieved by a soldier it from the ruins of the ReichChancellery in Berlin after the Nazis were defeated in May 1945.
And Wiedemann, who became a top aide to Hitler from 1934 to 1939 before becoming Germany's consul in San Francisco through 1941, helped connect Hess to Hans Heinrich Lammers, the head of the ReichChancellery during Hitler's reign.