London, Nov 4 (ANI): Sketches by a British woman of Hitler and his Nazi compatriots in their headquarters have been put up for auction at Dominic Winter auction house near Cirencester, Gloucester.
The drawings have been put up with an asking price of 7,000 pounds.
Helen McKie was the only woman who was allowed by the dictator to sketch inside his Munich stonghold, called Brown House.
17 astounding drawings of the dictator and his henchmen sketched in 1931 by the English woman have surfaced.
Drawn two years before Hitler came to power and eight years before the start of World War 2, the images are a peek into the early stages of Nazi rule.
The Brown House became the Nazi HQ on January 1, 1931 and it was named after the colour of the uniforms.
The drawings were put into an album with McKie writing inside, "Sketched in Hitler's Brown House Munich by special permission of Hitler's aide-de-camp Bruelenen - I was the only woman ever allowed to sketch here."he pencil sketches were retrieved from the family of the late Mark Dineley, a well known arms and armour collector, the Daily Mail reported.
McKie, who died in 1957, was an illustrator in various magazines and was reputed for painting military figures in World War 1. (ANI)
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