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Hitler On Board 🚢
Recently I came to realize that there has been a most glaring void here on my website. Having already thoroughly covered Adolf Hitler’s extensive journeys and exponential travels across Europe on Planes, Trains and Automobiles… somehow I totally skipped ships!!! So here it is! It’s certainly well past time we see Hitler at sea –… read more
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Hitler & Mussolini
There have been many special friendships and (in)famous duos throughout the course of history, Lewis and Clark, Bonnie and Clyde, Lloyd and Harry, etc. So in honor of ‘National Best Friends Day’ let’s take a look at Hitler hanging out with his one and only migliore amico, Il Duce. Okay, so maybe this dubious dictator… read more
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Hitler’s Beer Hall Days
The cavernous and cramped beer halls of Bavaria were an integral part of Hitler’s life and early career. During the formative years of the Nazi Party the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich was one of the main gathering places of the NSDAP. It was there on 8 November 1923 that Adolf Hitler launched the Beer Hall Putsch and… read more
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Hitler & Architecture
Arguably Adolf Hitler’s greatest passion and pastime outside of his quest for world domination was his obsession with architecture and urban design. So much so that he not only had grandiose plans for a total revision of Berlin but also had extensive plans for the redesign of just about every major city in Germany. Below… read more
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Hitler in Black Suit Set #1
These photographs are all from one photo session that took place in early 1925 inside Adolf Hitler’s apartment at Thierschstraße 41 in Munich. A couple of these also include Hitler’s German Shepherd Prinz. It was easy to put these together as a complete set by noticing the tiny bit of white handkerchief peaking out of… read more
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Hitler in Lederhosen Set #1
This group of photographs ranges from the years 1925 to 1929. I’ve discovered that the last few in this set are not Hoffmann photos, but I thought they went really well with this particular portrait session that took place in Hoffmann’s Munich studio in July 1926. My other two posts in the “Hitler in Lederhosen”… read more
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Hitler and May Day
In April 1933, the recently installed Nazi government declared 1 May the “Day of National Work”, an official state holiday, something the Weimar government before it had never done. Hitler’s new government stripped the holiday of its former class struggle and Marxist associations and integrated it into the fascist ideology of the Third Reich. Any… read more
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Hitler and Hess
Rudolf Hess was born 130 years ago today, in Alexandria, Egypt on 26 April 1894 and moved to Germany when he was fourteen. On 1 July 1920, Hess joined the newly created Nazi party after hearing Adolf Hitler speak at a beer hall in Munich. He became the party’s 16th member. When he met Hitler, he… read more
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Hitler’s Birthday 🎂
Adolf Hitler was born 135 years ago today, on 20 April 1889, in Braunau am Inn, Austria. A year ago on this date I posted an article specifically highlighting events from Hitler’s 50th birthday. This year let’s take a look at how this momentous occasion came to be celebrated annually across Germany both publicly and… read more
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Hitler in White Uniform 2
Time flies! It’s quite hard for me to believe, but I launched this blog exactly one year ago today. What a journey it has been, creating a total of 60 unique photo albums with over 2000 individual Adolf Hitler pics successfully identified, labeled, grouped and catalogued. On the outside, as far as blog statistics go,… read more
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Hitler and the Anschluss
On 12 March 1938, German troops crossed into Austria at 2.30 a.m. in Braunau, the city of Adolf Hitler’s birth, located along the southern border of the German Empire. Around midday, Goebbels read out a proclamation from Hitler on the radio. Before leaving Berlin, Hitler appointed Hermann Göring as his deputy in the event of… read more
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Hitler at the Berlin Motor Show
On 11 February 1933, Adolf Hitler officially opened the 23rd annual International Motor Show (IAA) in Berlin. Having become chancellor only 12 days prior, he decided to use one of his first major public speeches after coming to power to promote the German automobile industry. Hitler announced massive tax benefits to car owners, declared his… read more
Heinrich Hoffmann (1885 – 1957) served as Adolf Hitler’s official photographer from when Hitler took control of the Nazi party in 1921 until his death in 1945. Hoffmann estimates he took over half a million photographs of Hitler over the course of his career. His portraits were the most significant source of Nazi propaganda materials published over the course of close to 25 years, everything from postcards, posters, magazines, postage stamps and picture books. Click on each theme below to see a complete photo album devoted to that particular event or topic.
📸 *** Index of Photo Albums *** 📸
Heinrich Hoffmann Photo Gallery 