it states 7 millionm people NOT 7 million jews. There were two million gypsies were killed, and more than a million Russians and an undisclosed number of homosexuals (who were considered to be even lower than the Jews !).
so 7 million people is quite an underestimate

Norman, Guildford,

Hi Alan, according to a credible holocaust source/site; There were "12 million Holocaust victims" and not seven million as stated. Please visit the site-

http://www.nizkor.org/

jayil, london, uk

Jayil,
The Third Reich did kill some six million Jews. They also killed Russian POWs, ethnic Poles, Slavs, Roma, the disabled and mentally ill, Freemasons, homosexuals, dissidents and Jehovas Witnesses. This may account for the 'other' 1 million victims.

Alan Benzie, London, UK

"Adolf Hitler's stint as a jobbing painter has always been rather overshadowed by his subsequent career in politics" - best opening of an article for some time!!!

Jon, London, UK

"...someone who will go on to kill seven million people"

I thought he killed six million jews? The number increases every year due to inflation, or what?

jayil, london, uk

I've long thought that today's art is art by those who can't draw. Now we have two artists who can't draw overpainting the work of another artist who could not draw. Art is becoming not just a fraud, but a recursive fraud. Frauds defrauding the frauds of another fraud.

jon livesey, Sunnyvale, CA/USA

I think that this work is excellent.

JR, London,

I cannot see how any of the Chapmans "projects" can be considered art. The work of cynical, talentless opportunists maybe. I also fail to understand or imagine the nature of person that would purchase it - other than that they would be sinister or gullible and greedy.

M Jeffs, Bucks, UK

The words “crime against humanity” are perhaps out of place here. Poor chap, the art world didn't understand him and now he's the victim of a crime against humanity.

joe, birmingham, uk

Well, the rainbow certainly livens up a rather bland, but otherwise competent, landscape. Not sure I have any problem with that.

Howard, Sussex, UK

"Defacing art ...is a crime against humanity."

It doesn't sound like Hitler's crappy paintings are in short supply, and this is a fantastically funny and appropriate act of disrespect. It would have been more shocking if the Chapman's presented them as Art, without the somewhat one note joke.

Oli F, London,

Just because they couldn't glean clues to Hitler's psyche from those paintings doesn't mean others couldn't. Now no one will have a chance to study them again. Just another stunt masquerading as "art."

Chris, Largo, USA

Art is long dead; there is only marketing (and these guys know it)

Alan, Edinburgh,

Thats not gonna hurt Hitler. He's dead.

jayil, london, uk

Aside from the painting, I think that the first sentence of this piece is a masterly example of the art of understatement.

Will, Suffolk,

Looking at the example I dont believe these people can be classified as artists . What right have they to paint over the originals ? Some idiot will buy this crap .

Andrew ex pat, Paris , France

The rainbow looks even less well executed. We don't care that the Chapmans either can't or won't paint well. He was an iconographer and performance artist of immense, horrifying, ghastly talent, beating the Chapmans in their own field. Why care that he couldn't or wouldn't paint well either?

Ian Kemmish, Biggleswade, UK

Defacing art , regardless from where it comes from is a crime against humanity. People who justify it, insult artists everywhere. They may as well paint over the Mona Lisa.

Rupert, London, UK