Aseries of watercolours by Adolf Hitler were sold at a British auction house Mullock's recently for over 100,000 euros. The 13 paintings, most of them landscapes and found in a garage earlier this year by the seller, went for 95,589 pounds （about 107,000 euros or 140,000 dollars）.
希特勒一系列的水彩畫最近在英國馬洛克拍賣行以超過十萬歐元落槌，這13幅畫大部分是風景畫，今年稍早由賣方在一個車庫裡發現，最後以95,589英鎊成交，相當107,000歐元或14萬美元。
Among the paintings is a portrait of solitary figure dressed in brown peering into wine-colored waters. The date is 1910, the signature reads “A. Hitler” and scribbled just over the mysterious figure are the letters: “A.H.”
這批畫當中有一幅肖像畫，圖中一個孤獨的身影穿著棕褐色套裝，注視著酒紅色流水，日期是1910年，署名「Ａ. 希特勒」，並在這個神秘的身影上潦草地寫著A.H.兩個英文字。
So is this a portrait of the Fuehrer as a young man
那麼，這真的是這位不可一世的統治者年輕時的自畫像嗎？
“I don't think they're fakes,” said Richard Westwood-Brookes, historical documents expert at auction house Mullocks that carried out the sale. He said he did not believe anyone would have the nerve to fake the pictures, given the global publicity they have received.
主持這次拍賣會的馬洛克拍賣行歷史文件專家威斯伍德布魯克斯說：「我不認為這些畫是假的。」他說，由於這些畫會引起全球注意，他不相信有人膽敢偽造。
The authenticity of items associated with Hitler has long been a bone of contention. In 1983, German magazine Stern published what it said were extracts from Hitler's diaries. They were later exposed as forgeries.
希特勒相關文物真偽長久以來一直是各界爭論的焦點。1983年，德國《明星周刊》刊出所謂希特勒日記的摘要，事後發現是假冒的。
Westwood-Brookes reiterated that he believed the works, all signed "A. Hitler", were genuine. An Austrian expert issued certificates of authenticity for the pictures, which once belonged to a British soldier who was stationed in Essen, Germany, in 1945. But Westwood-Brookes conceded that no one could be sure.
威斯伍德布魯克斯強調，他相信這些署名希特勒的作品都是真品。奧地利一位專家給這些畫發出確認真品的憑證，畫原本是1945年駐守德國埃森的一位英國士兵的，但威斯伍德布魯克斯也承認，沒有人能打包票。
The portrait itself sold for about 10,000 pounds ($14,600). The buyer John Ratledge, 46, said he planned to hang it at home or in his office. “I am very pleased. I thought they would go for between five and six thousand,” Westwood-Brookes said.
這幅自畫像拍得一萬英鎊（14,600美元），買家是46歲的拉特列吉，他打算把畫掛在家裡或辦公室。「我很高興，我原本以為只能賣到5、6千英鎊，」威斯伍德布魯克斯說。
The sale also included a collection of official Nazi magazines for schoolboys and women, featuring knitting patterns and recipes. Westwood-Brookes had expected the 12 watercolours, oil painting and two other works on offer to fetch between 400 and 1,000 pounds each.
這次拍賣還包括納粹為學童和婦女所出的官方雜誌，內容主要是編織的圖案和食譜。威斯伍德布魯克斯原本希望另外12幅水彩、油畫和另外兩件拍賣作品，每件可以拍得400到1,000英鎊。
“I put their artistic merit as on a par with a good, competent amateur,” he said. “But people do not want to acquire these for their artistic merit. They just want to have something that belonged to someone famous from history.”
他說：「我認為這些畫的藝術價值可以和一位優秀出色的業餘畫家等量齊觀，但大家顯然並非衝著藝術價值來買這些畫，他們只想擁有屬於歷史上知名人物的作品。」
Two years ago, 21 paintings attributed to Hitler were sold for 118,000 pounds or more than twice the pre-sale estimate, by an auction house in England.
兩年前，據稱是希特勒的21幅畫賣了118,000英鎊，這已經是英國拍賣商事前預估價的兩倍以上。
The paintings date back to between 1908 and about 1914, when the formerGerman leader was a young man trying to earn a living as an artist in Vienna.
這些畫在1908到1914年創作，當時這位前德國領袖還是年輕人，他想到維也納當藝術家謀生。
“Unfortunately for the world, he was not accepted into the Vienna Academy, which was where he wanted to be,” Westwood-Brookes said. “Of course, if he had been accepted, then we would have known him today asan artist and not as an evil tyrant.”
威斯伍德布魯克斯說：「對這個世界來說，很不幸的是他想上維也納藝術學院，但校方沒有錄取他。當然，如果他順利入學，我們今天所知的希特勒應該是位藝術家而不是個惡魔獨裁。」
Westwood-Brookes acknowledged that the pieces were “hardly Picasso,” but-- concerns over authenticity aside--Hitler's works had a track record of attracting high bids.
威斯伍德布魯克斯承認，這些作品「絕對不是畢卡索」，但排除真偽問題，從過去成交紀錄看來，希特勒的畫作行情頗高。
Even if it were proven genuine beyond a doubt, the Hitler watercolor would not be the first self-portrait of the Nazi dictator discovered. In 1987 the late historian Werner Maser said he had unearthed an oil portrait of Hitler executed in 1925. Maser, who wrote several Hitler biographies, told the AP at the time that the painting showed Hitler in traditional Bavarian dress with short trousers and long white socks.
但即使百分之百確認是希特勒的作品，這幅畫也不是這位納粹獨裁第一幅被人發現的自畫像。1987年，已故歷史學家馬塞表示，他早在1925年就發現一幅希特勒的油彩自畫像。曾幫希特勒出過幾本傳記的馬塞當時告訴「美聯社」說，油畫中的希特勒穿著巴伐利亞傳統服飾，身穿短褲和白長襪。
Handout photo from Mullock's Auctioneers of a painting, believed to be a 1910 self portrait by Adolf Hitlerand identifiedby the initials 'A.H', written beside the figure. The self-portrait of the young Hitler sold for about 10,000 pounds.
上圖由馬洛克拍賣行所提供的照片（美聯社），據信是希特勒1910年的自畫像，由畫中人影旁的簽名A.H.，可以確認出自希魔手筆。這幅少年希特勒的自畫像賣了一萬英鎊。