Is this Hitler's real signature or a print?

[cameronb616]

During WWII my grandad got a printed picture of Hitler off a wall in a captured German airfield office before the French came in to raid it. He mailed it back and I'm wondering if Hitler actually signed it or if its just a copy. The signature is below the actual print. Here's a picture it seems to be to be real but I'm not an expert.

[Walkwolf]

Hi and welcome to the Forum - Could you please
post the pic the right way up.........?

[cameronb616]

It wasn't supposed to be like that I don't know why it got rotated.

[ww2relichunter]

It could be but the odds of that are very slime Hitlers signature is very valuable and pieces are very uncommon !

[Sir Payne]

Judging from others I have seen online, I doubt this one is authentic. It is too neat and readable.

[BOB COLEMAN]

The signature was likely written by a European but has no resemblence to that of Adolf Hitler. Attached are pictures from a book on 3rd Reich personality signature written by Charles Hamilton, an authority on the subject You need not be an authority to see that nothing is close.

[operaman]

Does not look like any that I have seen before.

[harryamb2]

the 1923 looks similar.

[cameronb616]

Well apparently it has been authenticated in the past by a professional but thanks for the input to everyone. I'm not sure what year it was signed though.

[CARL]

Welcome to the forum.

I would have to concur with several of the comments made above. This is most likely an attempt to match the earliest, i.e. 1923 pattern, shown above. Under examination, it displays several differences. Over the years, Adolf Hitler's signature changed rather dramatically, yet this example posted above fails to match any of those shown in the images posted from Hamilton's work above.

Further to ww2relichunter's comment above:

Whilst the value of Hitler signed pieces has risen rather steeply during the last decade or so, examples of Adolf Hitler signed documents etc are not as scarce as some might feel. Hitler spent a lot of his time signing various documents during his tenure as head of the Reich. Also, it bodes well to remember that everywhere the man went, people were desperate for his signature, and he often obliged. Examples are out there, and in large numbers.