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Paintings of Hitler's parents up for auction

August 3, 2011 14:09
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ByJennifer Lipman, Jennifer Lipman

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A California auction house is hoping to fetch more than £60,000 from the sale of two paintings said to feature Adolf Hitler's parents.

The oil paintings, both from the 1930s, are being sold by a San Diego auction house.

They feature Alois and Klara Hitler at Berghof, Hitler's holiday home in the Bavarian mountains.

The paintings have not been seen since the Holocaust. Auctioneer Craig Gottlieb said he acquired them from the descendants of a French war veteran, who took them from the house after the war.