A letter by Albert Einstein was sold this week at Bloomsbury Auctions in Mayfair, London, for a world record £207,600.
The letter, written in German in 1954 to philosopher Eric Gutkind, was sold to a private collector. Extra phone lines had to be installed to cope with worldwide interest.
It was expected to fetch up to £8,000.
In the letter, Einstein, who was Jewish, rejects the notion that Jews were God’s chosen people
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