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A rare sketch showing Adolf Hitler playing chess with Vladimir Lenin, the Soviet leader, is up for sale in an auction. Drawn by Emma Lowenstramm , the Fuhrer's then Jewish art teacher in Vienna in 1909, the sketch was signed on the reverse by the two dictators. The sketch is expected to fetch 40,000 pounds at an auction in Ludlow, Shropshire. The title of of the piece is "A Chess Game: Lenin with Hitler - Vienna 1909" & measures 20 inches by 15 inches. Forensic tests showed an 80% propensity that the signatures are genuine.

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