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August 31, 2025
- Droog Magazine periodical for investigative
journalism  The strange business of selling fakes, forgeries and other concoctions attributed to Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and other Nazi criminals. The annual
global turnover Alex Preston. The man who sleeps in
Hitler's bed. [Article on Kevin Wheatcroft ]. The
Guardian, London, June 24, 2015. Copy of this article, with higher estimation of the turnover: Alex Preston. This man owns the largest
collection of Nazi artifacts. The New York Post,
New York, June 27, 2015. The estimation originates via The
Hitler Virus, a book from the American
journalist Peter Wyden (1923-1998) from Stern
Magazine, October, 1984. Wyden: "The Stern
writers participated in one of the many auctions of
"militaria" that have kept galleries flush with a
business said to be grossing $40 million a year." Yet, the prices and numbers of Nazi militaria items have only risen since 1984. This would logically mean that the annual turnover in 2019/2020 is much higher than was estimated before.
Peter Wyden. The Hitler Virus. The
insidious legacy of Adolf Hitler. Arcade
Publishing, New York, 1998. Reprint 2011. Auctions 2015 - 'Hitler' still life with Morgenstern stamp print 2015 - The fifth 'Alter Hof'? Thies, Germany. 2015 - 'Hitler' with 'Morgenstern'-seal in USA On March 26, 2015 auction house Nate D. Sanders in Los Angeles was about to auction a watercolor allegedly painted by Hitler, start price $ 30,000. Hitler would have made this work in 1912. Already in 1936 the Viennese police established that Hitler never painted still lifes - which make this work a very silly fake.
 Left the alleged Morgenstern stamp print in Price; right the stamp print on the back of the 2015 "Hitler". They are made with the same stamp. We haven't traced a CoA issued by Peter Jahn to this work yet. Statement by Jakob Altenberg. Oberpolizeirat Dr. Spring. Bundes Polizeidirektion Wien, Sicherheitsbureau, s.B. 17105/36, November-December 1936. NSDAP Hauptarchiv NS 26/2599; Bundesarchiv Berlin. Ginger Adams Otis. Adolf Hitler’s painting of flowers goes on auction block New York Daily News, 23-03-2015.http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/adolf-hitler-painting-flowers-auction-block-article-1.2159511 David Ng. Purported Adolf Hitler watercolor painting to be sold at auction. Los Angeles Times, 24-03-2015. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-adolf-hitler-painting-auction-20150324-story.html Hitler Flower Painting Could Exceed $30,000 At Auction. Artlyst.com, 25-03-2015 http://www.artlyst.com/news/hitler-flower-painting-could-exceed-30000-at-auction/ Danielle Haynes. LA auction house withdraws watercolor said to be by Hitler. UPI, 25-03-2015. https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2015/03/25/LA-auction-house-withdraws-watercolor-said-to-be-by-Hitler/2991427321086/ Lot 8, veiling 26 maart 2015. Veilinghuis Nate D. Sanders (via Internet Archive) https://web.archive.org/web/20150317233642/http://natedsanders.com:80/Adolf _Hitler_Watercolor_Painting____During_His_Yea-LOT35911.aspx 2015 - 'Hitler' in Malaga Op 28 maart 2015 wordt in het Spaanse Malaga bij 'International Autograph Auctions Europe, S.L.' een 'Hitler' geveild. Met dit verkoop-praatje: "An original 10.5 x 14 watercolour painting, purported to be by Adolf Hitler, unsigned, the image depicting a clock tower, with various trees in the foreground. Annotated in contemporary pencil to the verso, in German, Stift bei Wels 18 Februar 1921 Adolf Hitler, indicating that the subject of the painting is the Wels Abbey in Austria." (...) "Provenance: According to information supplied by the vendor, all of which is documented in various newspaper articles (copies of which are included with the lot) the present painting was gifted by Hitler to Herman Goering. It was later to come into the possession of former Luftwaffe pilot Karol Bachraty (father of the vendor) following his escape from a Russian Concentration Camp in 1945. Bachraty made his way to Italy, accompanied by other Third Reich officers. Bachraty was to spend the rest of his life in Chile where he encountered other former officers and together they formed a small association. Bachraty was elected with the chief responsibility of taking care of the paintings, some of which the colleagues intended to sell in order to fund a care home for former officers." Een zoektocht naar 'Karol Bachraty' leidt naar een Spaanstalig blogstuk uit 2005, waar een hoogst onwaarschijnlijk verhaal wordt opgehangen over de Tsjechische piloot 'Karol Anton Bachraty Von Walzer' die met nog eens duizend andere Tsjechische piloten zou zijn overgelopen naar de Luftwaffe. Hij zou van 1940(?) -1943 aan het Oostfront hebben gevlogen, daarna zes maanden in Afrika - nog vreemder, want op 13 mei 1943 gaven de laatste Duitse troepen in Afrika zich over. Wat daarna verteld wordt is zo mogelijk nog onwaarschijnlijker. Het hele verhaal lijkt vooral verzonnen om een partij vervalst Hitler-materiaal en allerhande andere vervalste nazi-militaria te verkopen. D2. La increíble historia de un piloto alemán. Made in Iquique. 23-08-2005 http://madeiniquique.blogspot.nl/2005/08/la-increble-historia-de-un-piloto.html Lot 1474. : HITLER ADOLF: (1889-1945) Fuhrer of the Third Reich 1934-45. An original 10.5 x 14 watercolour painting, purported to be. Invaluable.com, 28-03-2015. https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/hitler-adolf:-1889-1945-fuhrer-of-the-third-rei-1474-c-914477ea18
2015 - 2 'Hitler'-aquarellen en 2 tekeningen in München Veilinghuis Hermann Historica biedt op veiling 70r, 12 mei 2015, waar ruim 1300 kavels met voornamelijk Nazi-materiaal (al dan niet echt) worden aangeboden, twee overduidelijke valse Hitleraquarellen en twee vermoedelijk door Albert Speer vervalste 'Hitler'-architectuurschetsen aan. Een van de twee 'Hitlers', Wien - Hoher Markt, 1913. Het andere werk, ongesigneerd en getiteld Weissenkirchen, stamt van Peter Jahn en heeft een Morgenstern-stempel op de achterkant. Zie: 'Het stempel - een nieuwe ontdekking'. Ook wordt een collectie van ruim 200 door kunstzwendelaar Peter Jahn uitgeschreven 'echtheidscerificaten' bij 'Hitlers' aangeboden. De verwachte opbrengstprijs was 1000 euro - onbekend is voor hoeveel euro deze voor vervalsers zeer aantrekkelijke collectie verkocht is. Daarnaast biedt Hermann Historica een groot aantal aan Hitler toegeschreven voorwerpen 'uit de collectie Anni Winter' aan, rijkelijk voorzien van 'echtheidsbewijzen'. Zie: Certificates of Authenticity - Anni Winter. 2015 - the fith Alter Hof? December 6, 2015 Lot 1090 at Thies Militaria Auctions LLC, Kirchheim under Teck, Germany  Click to enlarge. Description by actioneer: “Painting
is signed "A.Hitler" in lower right hand corner and
"Munchen 1914, Alter Hof" in the lower left.
Painting measures 10 1/2 by 14 1/2 and comes with a
letter of authenticity from Hitler's original
archivist, Professor Dr. August Priesack. This
painting represents the fifth water coloring of the
Alter Hof in Munich and most likely given by Hitler
to his many guests at the Lowenbraukeller beer hall.
This specimen is characterized by the amazing
preservation of its colors as it was most likely
kept in storage over the years. An important
historical example representing Adolf Hitler's time
in Munich prior to his rise to power.” Comment by Droog Magazine: This work remained unsold. I's hard to say
if this is an authentic one or NSDAP-Hauptarchiv
copy or even a postwar forgery. With this work no information at all about
the provenance is given. The Certificate of
Authenticity issued by August Priesack has no value;
the man authenticated any alleged Hitler presented
to him, including freshly painted forgeries by Konrd
Kujau. Which means that this work can't be
regarded as authentic, until proper forensic
research will tell if this work could possibly
originate from 1913-1914, or from the 1930s, or is a
postwar forgery. Source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/original-adolf-hitler-watercolor-1090-c-62547d0bfe#
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