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.
So far I have found 18 portraits in this particular photo series, all taken in Hoffmann’s Munich studio in August of 1927. There is also an earlier portrait series of Adolf Hitler in Lederhosen from 1926, and yet another set taken outdoors (from Springtime of this same year) that I have posted separately. I thought it would be really nice to have them all displayed together in complete albums, since I haven’t found them grouped as complete sets anywhere else in my research.
[…] two posts in the “Hitler in Lederhosen” series, featuring portraits taken in March 1927 and August 1927, are all Heinrich Hoffmann photos. Hitler banned all images of himself wearing shorts from […]
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Heinrich Hoffmann Photo Gallery 