October 27, 2022

The Hitler Forgery Industry

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The strange business of selling fakes, forgeries and other concoctions attributed to Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and other Nazi criminals.

2022 |

General | Press | Certificates of Authenticity

In 2022 the sale of fake Hitler objects continues as before. As there's no point in highlighting each dubious auction or each fake product, we present here only a few of these.

Auction houses that sold fake Hitler paintings, drawings, sketches or poems, as well as orther fake Hitler objects in 2022 are: Affiliated Auctions (Tallahassee, FL, USA); Alexander Historical Auctions (Chesapeake City, MD, USA); Hermann Historica (Grassbrunn, Germany), Militaria321.com (Liechtenstein).

Highlighted:

July 28 and 29, 2022: Summer Historical Militaria & Autographs Live Auction 2022 [archive.org-link]. Alexander Historical Auctions, Chesapeake City, MD (USA)

With fake Hitler watercolor.
See: Millions for fake Hitler watch? Droog Magazine, 2022

July 30, 2022: Militaria321.com [archive.org-link]. Liechtenstein.

Drawing is a typical Konrad Kujau forgery, or a forged Kujau. 

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A fake Hitler for $250,000 (October 2022)
or: a very greedy but stupid swindler

How the Berlin "art advisor" Holger Kuhn tried to sell an obvious fake Hitler for $250,000 to a Droog Magazine reporter.

Channel 4's Hitler hoax (October 27, 2022)

Or: how Channel 4 and Jimmy Carr deceived the world by presenting and destroying a fake Hitler painting, that they presented as authentic. 

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Press

Giulia Magri. The 'Hitler' artworks found in Birkirkara that are probably fake. Times of Malta, Birkirkara (Malta), 10-07-2022.
https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/hitler-artworks-found-birkirkara-probably-fake.967234

© Compilation Bart FM Droog, 2022

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