ADOLF HITLER
Artworks allegedly created by the Nazi dictator fail to sell at a Nuremberg auction Five watercolour paintings attributed to the Fuhrer from his early days as a struggling artist failed to sell at the auction in Nuremberg, Germany, over fears they could be fakes The paintings, which had starting prices of between €19,000 and €45,000, received no bids, according to a Sunday report by The Nuremberger Nachrichten newspaper Three days before Saturday’s auction, prosecutors seized 63 other paintings attributed to Hitler from the auction house to investigate allegations they were fakes. Hitler is thought to have painted 2,000 pictures as a struggling artist in Vienna before World War 1.