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Hitler had charmed life in prison

Adolf Hitler enjoyed special treatment while jailed in 1924, being allowed hundreds of visitors - sometimes unsupervised - including some 30 to 40 to celebrate his 35th birthday, according to a treasure trove of documents that have surfaced from the prison near Munich where he was held.

The 500 documents from the Landsberg prison were recently found by a Nuremberg man among the possessions of his late father, who had purchased them at a flea market in the 1970s, according to Werner Behringer, whose auction house in the Bavarian city of Fuerth will offer them for sale next month.