As an artist, Adolf Hitler was certainly no Vincent van Gogh - in fact experts describe his works as "mediocre" - but nevertheless, several watercolor paintings and drawings by Der Fuhrer fetched nearly 400,000 euros (HK$3.52 million) at a weekend auction.The most expensive was a painting of King Ludwig II's Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, now a tourist magnet, which went to a buyer from China for 100,000 euros, Nuremberg-based Weidler auctioneers said.A still-life of carnations changed hands Read more [...]

Adolf Hitler Paintings Auctioned Off For $450,000 By Jelani James | Jun 22, 2015 02:37 PM EDT Before Adolf Hitler became the leader of the Nazi Party, he was a simple painter who sold watercolors of Vienna's sights. Unfortunately, he didn't make it to art school due to his work being seen as mediocre. Nowadays, even the most mediocre of paintings can fetch a high price— especially if the artist also happens to be one of history's most Read more [...]

On Saturday, 14 works by Adolf Hitler fetched $446,000 at auction in Nuremberg, where the artist once made grandiloquent speeches about national art (and much else). The amount is considerable given Hitler's modest achievements as a painter. One could view the pictures as memorabilia rather than art as such, and consider the buyers to be guilty of bad taste, if not worse. But I would argue that Germany needs to hunt down as many of these works as possible and exhibit them to the public. Looking Read more [...]

BERLIN The man who persuaded a Cold War conservative leader in West Germany to save Communist East Germany from insolvency has died in Bavaria, where he fled just after the Berlin Wall came down.In 1983, Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski convinced Bavarian state premier Franz Josef Strauss, an ardent anti-communist and former Defense Minister, to lend his nearly bankrupt country a billion of West Germany's marks, prized as an enviably hard currency.As the head of East Germany's "Kommerzielle Koordierung" Read more [...]