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Guapo
12-18-2010, 01:05 AM
Sketch of Hitler playing chess with Lenin put up for auction

Source: Daily Mail (UK) (9-3-09)
This astounding picture purporting to capture a young Adolf Hitler playing chess against Vladimir Lenin 100 years ago has been put up for auction.

Prospective buyers will be taking a huge gamble on the authenticity of the picture, said to have been created in Vienna by the Fuhrer's art teacher, Emma Lowenstramm.

It is titled 'A Chess Game: Lenin with Hitler - Vienna 1909' and the vendors claim the signatures on the back are of the two dictators.

Experts, however, remain to be convinced.

http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/pics/cn4055_hitler_and_lenin.jpg

Cato
12-18-2010, 03:30 AM
Lenin: "Checkmate dude."
Hitler: "Herp derp."