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Nuremberg Mayor Ulrich Maly condemned the upcoming sale as "bad taste" in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.
Among the items to go under the hammer are a view of the mountain lake with a starting price of 45,000 euros ($ 51,000) and a wicker chair bearing the symbol of the swastika, allegedly belonging to the Nazi dictator.
The auction house Weidler organizes the "special sale" in Nuremberg, the city in which Nazi war criminals were tried in 1945.
The auction hit the headlines a few days before its launch, after several works of art were withdrawn on Thursday because they were suspected to be fake and prosecutors intervened. .
The sale of art objects presumed by Hitler – who tried for a while to make a living as an artist in his native Austria – regularly arouses the indignation of collectors who are willing to pay the high price for works of art related to the country's Nazi past.
"There is a long tradition in this trade of devotional objects related to Nazism", told AFP Stephan Klingen of the Central Institute for the History of Art at Munich.
"Whenever the media hears about it … and the prices they bring up are constantly rising, and it's something that really annoys me."
"Ambitious amateur"
In Germany, the public display of Nazi symbols is illegal, but exceptions can be made, in educational or historical contexts for example.
To comply with the law, the auction house pixelated the swastikas on the wicker chair and a blue and white Meissen porcelain vase in the catalog photos, and covered them on the spot.
But none of the paintings contain any insignia of the totalitarian party.
According to Klingen, Hitler had the style of a "moderately ambitious amateur", but his creations are not distinguishable from "hundreds of thousands" of comparable works of the time, which makes their authenticity particularly difficult to verify.
A batch of 26 pieces originally appearing in the catalog was removed from the sale after suspicions were raised about their nature.
The watercolors, drawings and paintings bearing the "Hitler" signatures present views of Vienna or Nuremberg, female bads and still lifes, the auction house announced. They were offered by 23 different owners.
Prosecutors gathered Wednesday at the premises of Weidler 63 works bearing the signature "A.H.". or "A. Hitler", including some not expected to go under the hammer on Saturday.
The Nuremberg-Fürth Prosecutor's Office announced the opening of an investigation into unknown persons "suspected of falsifying documents and attempted fraud," told AFP Attorney General Antje Gabriels -Gorsolke.
"If they turn out to be fake, then we will try to figure out who knows what in the chain of ownership," she said.
Weidler said in a statement that the withdrawal of the sale of paintings "does not automatically mean that it is fake".
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