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The German auction house Weidler brings an oil painting next week under the hammer that has been attributed to Adolf Hitler. The signed 1916 canvas of 63 by 48 centimeters, according to Werner Maser, who wrote several books about the Nazi leader, the young French Charlotte Lobjoie. Hitler would have had a relationship with her during the First World War when he served as a soldier in France.

The German police have picked a completely drunk bus driver from the wheel of his vehicle in Nürnberg. The 50-year-old man had stepped into the blood with about 2.5 promilla of alcohol and at the first stop he had already hit the guardhouse and the halt board.

The 50-year-old German right wing extremist Wolfgang P. has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the shooting of a policeman and a dual attempted assassination last October. P. betrayed the courtroom and heard the sentence unmoved.