page_title: Columbus Globe for State and Industry Leaders
section_title: Whereabouts
hierarchical_section_title: Columbus Globe for State and Industry Leaders / Whereabouts
caption_attribution_description: English: Charlie Chaplin from the film The Great Dictator (1940).
context_page_description: The Columbus Globe for State and Industry Leaders was a globe designed specifically for Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party.
  Made in Berlin in the 1930s, the Columbus Globe for State and Industry Leaders was located in Hitler's office throughout most of its existence. It became widely known in the United States after comedian Charlie Chaplin parodied it in his 1940 film The Great Dictator. Comedy group The Three Stooges also made fun of it in two of their short subject comedies. 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 replaced Ethiopia with Italian East Africa and was known for its size as well as manufacturing cost.
context_section_description: Numerous globes purported to have been owned by Hitler exist throughout the world, although the authenticity of many of them is doubtful. There are a total of three in Berlin: one at a geographical institute, another at the Marcher Museum, and the third at the German Historical Museum. Another two reside in public collections in Munich. Many of the globes show Germany with a bullet hole or simply wiped out, an act committed out of contempt by either Soviet or American soldiers.
  Based on photographic evidence, none of these globes are the iconic one from Hitler's office in the Chancellery.
  In May 1945, one globe allegedly owned by Hitler was found by American soldier John Barsamian among the ruins of the Berghof, Hitler's home on the Obersalzberg near Berchtesgaden, where he often lived when not in Berlin. The house had been nearly completely looted by the time Barsamian arrived. He took the globe home and kept it for 60 years before selling it at an auction in San Francisco in 2007. Bob Pritikin, an entrepreneur from San Francisco, bought the globe for $100,000, five times the original estimated price of $20,000.
  In September 2007, the historian Wolfram Pobanz declared that the copy of the giant globe with a bullet hole in the Deutsches Historisches 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 with no clue as to where the Globe that belonged to Hitler is today.
caption: The Columbus Globe for State and Industry Leaders being parodied in The Great Dictator
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