Hitler painting donated to Dutch wartime institute

THE HAGUE: The Dutch national institute for wartime documentation said on Saturday it has been given a rare watercolour painting by Adolf Hitler, believed to be the only one in existence in The Netherlands.
The aquarelle -- a technique of painting with thin transparent watercolours -- depicting a tower in Vienna was donated to the Amsterdam-based NIOD institute by a woman whose identity was not revealed, the leftist daily De Volkskrant added.
"The woman did not want the painting in her home and two Dutch auction houses declined to put it up for sale," the paper said.
It was donated earlier this year to the NIOD, originally set up just after World War II to create a national archive of documents relating to the 1940-45 Nazi occupation of The Netherlands.
The unidentified woman’s father originally bought the painting at a stamp and coin market "for 75 cents and only realised when he got home that it was signed by ‘A. Hitler’," the paper said.
"After months of following an authentication process the... conclusion is: it’s an original from the hand of Adolf Hitler," the NIOD said in a statement.