By DaysWithDave
Published: August 21, 2009
Berlin - A German based auction house has given the green light to auction off three water color paintings that were painted by Adolf Hitler during his struggling artist years spent in Vienna with the paintings to go on the block next month.
The landscape portraits that were described as “neutral” by Kerstin Weidler of Weidler’s Auction House have sparked an uproar among the German population and their government representatives that are sensitive to the country’s collective shame over Hitler’s reign.
The Left Party’s leader, Lothar Bisky lambasted the coming auction and vowed that his party would introduce legislation to the Budestag that would ban all future auctions of Hitler related items for profit. “This is a disgrace to the German people who have clearly voiced their opposition to any mention of Hitler other than to scorn him,” said Bisky.
Chancellor Angela Merkel, locked in a tough reelection battle against Frank-Walter Steinmeier and independent candidate Horst Schlaemmer, weighed in on the latest controversy to beset her country to acknowledge, “Germany’s deep regret and sorrow over the upcoming auction.”
“Germany acknowledges the great shame of our history that is Hitler and the Third Reich. I bow to the survivors of the Holocaust as well as to those that did not make it and I apologize for this most grievous assault on the Jewish people that this auction represents,” the Chancellor added.
Chancellor Merkel hinted that Germany would construct a new memorial to atone for the sins of the Weidler auction.
DaysWithDave is a contributing writer to The Internets.
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