DEVIL'S PAINTINGS ON AUCTION

Watercolors by Hitler? An auction is set (MSNBC)
LONDON - Watercolors and sketches attributed to Adolf Hitler are up for sale Tuesday, 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.