[Images added by this website] David Irving, the controversial historian ... says he 'hopes the buyer has a money-back guarantee' London, Sunday, May 9, 2009   Described as a Hitler self-portrait, and its inner meaning discussed by many learned critics and scholars... Mandrake Hitler 'self-portrait' might be fake By Richard Eden WHEN a "self-portrait" of Adolf Hitler was sold amid much fanfare last month for 10 times its reserve price, the auctioneer's historical documents expert boasted about the amount of interest that it had received. The same "expert" has, however, now admitted that the painting, signed "A. Hitler 1910", might be a fake after Mandrake pointed out to him that it was, in fact, likely to be a painting of Clapper Bridge on Dartmoor. "It's impossible to know exactly if they are genuine," says Richard Westwood-Brookes, of Mullocks auction house, which sold the picture for £10,000 along with 12 other watercolours that it claimed were by the Nazi leader. "It's like if someone gave you a piece of wood and said 'this is from the Battle of Trafalgar', you wouldn't be able to tell 100 per cent if it was. You can never be entirely sure. Nobody came forward despite a huge amount of publicity before the sale to say that the paintings were fake." David Irving, the controversial historian, who initially denounced the "Hitler Diaries" that were published by The Sunday Times in 1983 as forgeries, says he "hopes the buyer has a money-back guarantee". He tells me: "I warned all concerned that the paintings are all fakes. I have handled perhaps a score of genuine Hitler artworks, usually sold by the people, close friends, to whom Hitler had given them. They were all catalogued at one time."    ... the bridge on which "Hitler" is sitting turns out to be the well known Clapper Bridge on Dartmoor in Devon. Hitler never visited England.   Last month: Mr Irving warned Richard Westwood-Brookes about the fake (pdf) Ekspert: Hitlers selvportræt er falsk (Danish) Hitler art to go on sale in Britain The Daily Telegraph: His first self-portrait up for auction: authentic? We doubt it -- the source is the late "art expert" Peter Jahn, who sold a number of unfortunate forgeries Radical's Diary, April 25, 2009: David Irving exposes the Hitler paintings recently auctioned as fakes   Focal Point acts as agents for the sale of the following genuine Adolf Hitler items: his walking stick [Gehstock] | photos 1 and 2 and 3 | news about Hitler and Eva Braun bone relics | paintings: Wüst, Bechstein, Troost, Pfarrer, Netherlands, Montreal, Cullis, Bijl, Astroman | Ernst Röhm original photos -- See the lying articles about these in the British and German press, e.g. Berliner Zeitung Irving eröffnet Nazi-Ebay (incidentally their owners Ullstein published most of Mr Irving's books: see right).   Website support: contribute once  |   regularly

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