This is another session of photographs taken early in the Spring of 1927. I’ve managed to track down 13 photos from this particular series, and it is possible there may be more. Heinrich Hoffmann often photographed Adolf Hitler in many various outfits during the late 1920’s to help him decide what would make himself most appealing to the German public. He experimented dressing as a “man of the people” and was photographed wearing lederhosen in idyllic alpine settings. Hitler eventually decided that this particular look was “beneath his dignity” and he ordered these pictures to be destroyed and banned from further publication after 1933. Whether one finds these silly, sassy, or stylish, thankfully these negatives were secretly preserved by Hoffmann and were never actually destroyed!
Heinrich Hoffmann Photo Gallery 