Adolf Hitler's phone sells for $316,500

A telephone owned by Adolf Hitler has sold at a US auction for $US243,000 ($A316,483).

Andreas Kornfeld of Alexander Historical Auctions says the phone sold on Sunday afternoon to a person who bid by phone. The auction house does not disclose the names of buyers.

Bidding for the phone started at $US100,000.

The red telephone includes a Nazi party symbol and Hitler's name engraved on the back.

Occupying Russian officers gave the phone to a British officer, Sir Ralph Rayner, during a visit to Hitler's bunker in Berlin. The phone was used in vehicles and trains as well as Hitler's field headquarters.

Kornfeld says a porcelain figure of an Alsatian dog, also owned by Hitler, also sold on Sunday to a different bidder for $US24,300.