Hitler drawings to be auctioned

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Hitler sketches to be auctioned in Montreal

Hitler sketches to be auctioned in Montreal

MONTREAL - Four sketches by Nazi tyrant Adolf Hitler and two greeting cards signed by him are for sale by a Montreal auction house.

The six pieces will be part of an auction held by Iegor-Hotel auctions on July 19-20.

Iegor de Saint Hippolyte, a spokesman for the auction house, said Tuesday the items are all documented in historian John Toland's book Hitler: The Pictorial Documentary of His Life.

The sketches are done in charcoal, pencil and watercolour, said Saint Hippolyte. The cards have messages and are signed by Hitler, who led Germany from 1933 to 1945 and took the country down the road to devastation in the Second World War.
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r>One card was sent on the occasion of New Year's in 1935 and the othe
r is a Christmas card from 1938.

The artifacts belong to a collector who wishes to remain anonymous, Saint Hippolyte said. He would not say if the owner is Canadian or foreign.

The smallest sketch is 20 cm by 32 cm and the largest is 41 cm by 66.

Saint Hippolyte said the objects are a first for him.

"I have sold many military objects but this is the first time I can remember I'm selling something out of the ordinary," he said.

:ah: sieg heil!

 

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Nazi memorabilia is big business online

Nazi memorabilia is big business online

HITLER memorabilia has become a multimillion-pound business with autographs routinely fetching Ô�Å¡£2,000.

Reams of writing paper embossed with the Nazi eagle and the intials AH were liberated by American soldiers from a warehouse near Hitler's mountain retreat on the Obersalzberg. It can now be bought on the internet for Ô�Å¡£30-Ô�Å¡£50 a sheet. Calling cards from the same source, usually marked Adolf Hitler, Deutscher Reichskanzler, are also available.

Hitler's ink blotting pad --a signature is revealed if it is held to a mirror --fell into the hands of Gerdy Troost, his interior decorator. A single authenticated autograph dated February 18, 1936, is on offer for thousands of pounds. It is one of per

haps t
ens of thousands that Hi
tler scribbled during his political career.

Maria Zeldovitch, a Russian interpreter at the postwar Nuremberg trials, has sold thousands of copies of a photograph she took of the wedding certificate of Hitler and Eva Braun, signed in the Berlin bunker at the end of the war. The bride started to write Braun then, realising her mistake, scratched it out and wrote her husband's name. The photographs sell for Ô�Å¡£25.

Hitler watercolours are the probably the safest investment. A signed sketch of a German postman sold at auction for Ô�Å¡£5,200 in Cornwall this month. It is said to have belonged to Otto GÃԚ ÃƒÆ’”�šÃ”š¼nsche, Hitler's personal adjutant, who remained with him in the Berlin bunker in May 1945 and who supervised the burning of Hitler's body.

France, Germany and Austria ban the sale or display of Nazi memorabilia. :Swastika2:

 

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The Auction Results:

Hitler sketches fetch $32,400 at Montreal auction
Updated Wed. Jul. 20 2005 5:18 PM ET

Canadian Press

MONTREAL --Four sketches by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and two greeting cards signed by him were sold for $32,400 at auction Tuesday evening.

Each of the sketches fetched between $6,500 and $7,500, while winning bids for the cards were $2,100 and $2,300. Witnesses said the room was silent as the bids were made over the telephone by unnamed individuals.

"You couldn't hear a fly," Gilles Duguay said on the steps of the old church that houses the Iegor-Hotel auction house.

"Nobody in the crowd raised a hand. No word was spoken."

Reporters were barred from entering the site throughout the auction, unless they were willing to bid. As the Hitler items were about to be
put on the block, large curtains were drawn and the building's f
ront door was shut to shield the action inside.

Officials said the steps were taken to protect confidentiality, even though the identities of the bidders wasn't disclosed.

The sketches were done in charcoal, pencil and watercolour. The cards have messages and are signed by Hitler, who led Germany from 1933 to 1945 and took the country down the road to devastation in the Second World War.

One card was sent on the occasion of New Year's in 1935 and the other is a Christmas card from 1938.

The artifacts belonged to a collector who wished to remain anonymous, said Iegor de Saint Hippolyte, a spokesman for the auction house.

He would not say if the owner was Canadian or foreign.

Duguay said he doesn't believe the items qualify as art and he hopes they leave the country.

"The beauty of all this is they are probably buyers from outside of Canada who will take all this garbage w
ith them and we will be rid of it," said the art buyer.

"That's might be the only positive thing about
this."

Earlier, a Canadian veteran arrived at the auction after reading about it in a newspaper. Under his arm was a photo album of Hitler photos he had hoped to sell.

Claude Brais, who served in 1944 and 1945, claimed to have received from a German family during the country's occupation.

Brais wouldn't comment on the propriety of the auction but said his collection was just a souvenir he's held on to all these years.

"It's like anything else," he said. "Why do you want to keep old money or stamps or anything like that."

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