The seizure of three paintings signed “A. Hitler” from a Berlin auction house has shed light on the growing market for forged artworks attributed to the Nazi leader.
Experts said auctioneers are turning a blind eye to obvious fakes to cash in on lingering fascination with the Führer that has spawned a fraudulent market worth millions of pounds.
Police in Berlin halted the sale of one watercolour landscape of the Rhine and two of the Alps on January 24 after receiving a tip-off from a Dutch investigative journalist, Bart F M Droog, that they were almost certainly forged.
A police spokesman said an investigation had been lanched into suspected fraud and document forgery by the seller, who has not been named.
Droog said he also
