The highest bid ? ?10500 ? was for ?The Church of Preux-au-Bois?, seen at the top of this post. An Estonian at the auction, doing the legwork for some east European businessman, said, ?I had a budget to bid for anything that has Hitler's signature. ... Schulte Stratthaus of the German embassy in Vienna spent years roaming around (or at least his peons did), paying the owners handsomely for the pieces and storing them all in tunnels beneath the Platterhof Hotel. ...
