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A painting by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler,that may have belonged to Jewish-Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud,will be up for auction next month in London raising speculations that the two may have known each other during their early days in Vienna.
The watercolour depicting a church and mountains signed,A Hitler,1910,with Sigmund Freud,Vienna, written on the back of the painting will be up for sale at a starting price of 10,000 British Pounds.
Both men were in Vienna at the same time and we know Hitler was selling his paintings,so it is quite possible that Freud had one on the wall,Richard Westwood-Brookes from Mullocks Specialist Auctioneers told Britains Telegraph on Sunday.
We will never know for certain whether this was Freuds,but it raises the tantalising prospect that the two men might have met, he said.
The strange coincidence has led the paintings owners to conclude that it may have hung on the wall of Freuds Vienna office where he lived and worked until he fled to London after Germany took over Austria in 1938,daily Haaretz Reported.
