London - Hitler Water Paintings To Be Sold At Auction

London - Watercolors and sketches attributed to Adolf Hitler are going up for sale, forcing a tiny auction house in southwest England to install multiple telephone lines to accommodate an expected crush of bidders from Canada to New Zealand.
The 21 watercolors and two sketches were found in a farmhouse in Belgium, not far from where Hitler -- then an aspiring artist -- was stationed in Flanders during World War I.

The anonymous owners of the works -- mostly landscapes -- had the paper tested to determine its age, confirmed the signature and matched landmarks in the paintings to sites where Hitler was posted, said Chris Walton, a spokesman for Jefferys Auctioneers at Lostwithiel in Cornwall.  
Still, it is impossible to say with certainty whether Hitler painted them. The experts who authenticated them in the 1980s are now dead. Even so, the works could sell for up to $8,000 apiece, Walton said.