British artist Helen McKie was a well known travel and commercial artist, her popular military paintings gained her public appeal during the first world war - one of her paintings was presented to Churchill in WWII.
She inexplicably gained access to Brown House by permission of Hitler's aide-de-camp Bruelenen and made her chillingly alive sketches shortly before Hitler seized power and the world made its devastating turn in German and human history. She was the only female artist admitted to sketch there.
The Brown House was the Nazi headquarters after January 1st 1931 where the offices of Hitler, Himmler, Goring and Hess lay and where a blood spattered Nazi flag "the blood flag" - their sacred relic - a swastika blooded when Munich police fired on Nazi members in 1923 proudly stood.
The pencil sketches will be auctioned.
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