Hitler's Gift Used Against Him

From The American Horologist magazine, January 1942

Hitler's Gift Used Against Him

Freddy Tomlins, British Royal Air Force, on leave to skate at the Ice Carnival held in Seattle, December 5th and 6th, may time his effort to peddle destruction to Hitler by a watch which was the gift of Adolf to him.

The watch bears the engraved message "To our dear Freddie Tomlins in remembrance of his skating in the Berliner Sport Palast, March 29 to April 4, 1937." Tomlins, then 20 years old won the International skating championship in the Berlin Sport Palast, April, 1937, by defeating Horst Farbar, German national champion.


Tomlin tells the time "through courtesy of Hitler," and adds, "Of course, I wish Hitler were as reliable as the watch."