6 December 2025

Hitler Meets a Movie Star

Adolf Hitler greets the film actor Willy Fritsch at a reception for artists held in the Reich Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda on 1 April 1933. In the center of the photo is Maria Goebbels, the sister of the Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels; to the left is Franz Moralla, head of the cultural office of the NSDAP, and to the far right: Ludwig Körner, member of the Reichstheaterkammer. At this time in April 1933, the American film industry entered into cooperation with the NSDAP regime and committed itself to refraining from the production of any Hitler-critical films. Winifred Wagner was also invited to have lunch with Hitler at the Reich Chancellery on this day.

5 December 2025

Hitler and his Front-line Comrade

Adolf Hitler pays a visit to his WW1 friend Ernst Schmidt at Chiemsee on 22 April 1935. On 6 August 1914, Schmidt joined the 1st Company of the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment. Other members of this regiment included Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Hans Mend and Max Amann. After initial training in Munich, Schmidt arrived on the Western Front on 21st October 1914, where his regiment took part in the Battle of Ypres. It has been claimed that Schmidt’s regiment was reduced from 3,600 to 611 men during this first period of fighting. Schmidt shared Hitler’s right-wing political opinions and in March 1920, he joined the German Worker’s Party. In 1922 Schmidt moved to Garching an der Alz, over sixty miles from Munich. He kept in constant touch with Hitler and visited him in May 1924 when he was imprisoned in Landsberg. He also founded a local branch of the Nazi Party in Garching. On 1 May 1925, Hitler sent him a gilt-edged copy of Mein Kampf that was inscribed to “my dear and faithful wartime comrade”.

18 November 2025

Hitler Visits a Baron

Adolf Hitler visits Baron Paul von Eltz-Rübenach at Schloss Wahn near Cologne on 18 August 1930. Eltz-Rübenach was Hitler’s Reich Minister of Transport for four years. As a devout Catholic, he was troubled by the rising conflict between the Nazi government and the Catholic Church. At a cabinet meeting on 30 January 1937, Eltz-Rübenach rejected the Golden Party Badge personally offered by Hitler and demanded a statement of Hitler’s proposed policy toward the Church. Everyone sat in stunned silence as Eltz-Rübenach was forced to immediately submit his resignation.

13 November 2025

Hitler on a Flying Boat!

Adolf Hitler disembarks from the flying boat Dornier Do X in Warnemünde-Hafen. His visit to the Flugbootes Dornier X plane, designed by Claude Dornier, was accompanied by Friedrich Christiansen, who stands off to his left. In the early 1930’s, General Christiansen won fame as captain of the 12‐engine “DO‐X” seaplane, developed and built by the Dornier Aviation Company. In 1939, Hitler named Christiansen a General der Flieger of the Luftwaffe. Hitler paid a visit to the Dornier X plane planned by Claude Dornier on 20 July 1932 at Warnemünde-Hafen, and later took a cruise flight from Lake Starnberg over Upper Bavaria with a Dornier Do X on 29 April 1933.

12 November 2025

Hitler in Waldenburg

On 22 July 1932, Adolf Hitler took part in an election rally of the NSDAP party, which took place at the stadium in Waldenburg (now Wałbrzych). Adolf Hitler speaks from the stands of the stadium to 50,000 listeners in the Nowe Miasto district of Wałbrzych in Poland.

7 November 2025

Hitler takes to the Air 🛫

Adolf Hitler dons his leather flying cap and takes a ride to the airport with Heinrich Hoffmann during his fourth Deutschlandflug tour of Germany in the autumn of 1932. His fourth election campaign by air took place between October 11 and November 5, 1932. During this timeframe Hitler held a total of 50 speeches, sometimes even as many as three in one day.

3 November 2025

Hitler at another Youth Hostel

Adolf Hitler and Baldur von Schirach at the newly inaugurated Adolf Hitler youth hostel in Berchtesgaden on 19 October 1936. The Adolf Hitler Jugendherberge (youth hostel) was built between 1935-1938. The building was designed by architect Georg Zimmermann and still functions as a youth activity center and hostel today. On Hitler’s 46th birthday on April 20, 1935, Reich Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach solemnly laid the foundation stone for the “educational institution for National Socialism” in front of 2,300 Hitler Youth at today’s Haus Untersberg. Its construction cost approximately 1.2 million Reichsmarks, funded through the Reich Youth Leadership budget.

2 November 2025

Hitler at a Youth Hostel

Adolf Hitler pays a visit to the Reichsjugendherberge Luginsland (Reich Youth Hostel) located in the Kaiserstallung at the Imperial Castle of Nuremberg on 2 November 1938. This same day he had also visited the Reich Party Congress grounds, as well as going to view the Reichs’s Imperial Regalia which is housed inside of the castle. Many youth hostels were set up during the Third Reich era, and the “German Youth Hostel Association” (DJH) was incorporated into the Hitler Youth (HJ). Unlike before 1933, youth hostels were being built primarily for mass use in Germany. Hitler requested that the Nuremberg hostel be capable of accommodating as many as 450 ‘young hikers.’ This led to portions of the castle complex to also include facilities for Hitler Youth leaders. The local administration hoped that the newly renovated hostel would immerse youths in the experience of the party rallies, optimistically proclaiming that ‘thousands of German boys and girls will pass through it [the hostel] and take something of the spirit of greatness that prevails in it into their future life’. 

Nuremberg’s historical role as a significant imperial seat of the Holy Roman Empire was capitalized on by the Nazis to project an image of a continuous, powerful German nation. The city’s medieval history and its castle linked the regime of the Third Reich to Germany’s glorious imperial past. When Hitler spoke at the Deutscher Hof Hotel on 1 September 1933 he described Nuremberg as “the soul of German heritage.” The Nürnberger Burg (Imperial Castle) itself served as an honorary residence for Hitler when he was in the city for the Nazi Party rallies. 

21 October 2025

Hitler in Stuttgart

Adolf Hitler at the Gauparteitag der NSDAP on 8 May 1927 in Stuttgart. After his speech in the Wulle-Saal in front of 800 listeners, he participated in a demonstration through the city.  His opening speech for the Gau party congress had taken place the day before in the Dinkelacker Saalbau in front of 1900 listeners. He also met with the German naval officer, writer, journalist and National Socialist politician Count Ernst Graf zu Reventlow before staying overnight at the Hospiz Viktoria. Reventlow was never liked or trusted by Hitler, but his personal popularity was substantial, so Hitler chose not to cross him but to ignore him. Reventlow was never given a high party office nor, after the seizure of power, was he given any government post. Though often critical of Hitler’s policies, he was allowed to publish his newspaper, Der Reichswart, until his death in 1943.

20 October 2025

Hitler in Bayreuth 🎵

Adolf Hitler and Josef Stolzing-Czerny near Bayreuth’s Festspielhaus during the 1925 Bayreuth Wagner Music festival on 22 July 1925. Czerny was an Austrian-German writer, screenwriter, cultural journalist, and music critic. Later he lived in Munich, where he was one of Adolf Hitler’s early and close followers, for whom, together with Dietrich Eckart, he paved access to Richard Wagner’s family in Bayreuth. He corrected and revised the manuscript of Mein Kampf and played a key role in its publication. From 1923 to 1932, he was editor of the Völkischer Beobachter. On 16 April 1925, he joined the Nazi Party (membership number 699). By the early 1930s, Czerny appears to have lost importance in the party, as he was considered an exponent of “fanatical anti-Christianity” and had thus become too extremist for Hitler. Czerny gave himself the name Stolzing after a character in Wagner’s Meistersinger von Nürnberg. He wrote novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, and essays. His work was notable “less for its literary creativity than for its radical anti-Semitic tones.”

15 October 2025

Hitler in Solln

Adolf Hitler at a local gathering with the Münchener SA in early 1926. The Münchener SA was the Munich branch of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the street fighting association of the NSDAP. This march and meeting took place in Solln, a Munich neighborhood located 9 km south-west of the city center. Solln was the home to Hitler’s close friend and early supporter, Hermine Hoffmann, who became a surrogate mother figure to him. As one of his earliest and most loyal supporters, she housed Hitler in the early 1920’s and provided him with both financial and emotional support. She was a very early member of the Nazi Party, and her home had served as a command center and refuge for participants in Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch in 1923.

14 October 2025

Hitler Hit by Flowers 💐

Adolf Hitler’s arrival in Loket on 4 October 1938. The photo captures a moment when Hitler was hit by a thrown flower bouquet by an overly enthusiastic young lady. Loket was the first town in the occupied Czech borderland that Hitler passed through at 12:10 p.m. It rained heavily all the way from Kraslice and Sokolov, and the “greatest of Germans” endured it with true Nordic toughness in an open car. His six-wheeled Mercedes had to literally weave through the dense crowd in places. In less than seven minutes, Hitler had left Loket behind. The rain stopped and the entourage stopped to eat a real soldier’s meal, peas with bacon. But Hitler only filled up vegetarianally – vegetable puree topped with fresh fruit. All the ingredients for his lunch came from the Loket area.

13 October 2025

Hitler in Świdnica

Hitler travelled from Berlin to testify as a witness in the court of Świdnica, Poland on 13 December 1929. It was his first time in Lower Silesia, and as shown in this rare photograph he appeared in civilian attire. The trial against 16 Nazis in Świdnica came about from a violet brawl that took place on  27 September 1929. These Świdnica SA men and Hitler supporters broke up a social democratic party meeting in a disorderly brawl held in the dining hall of the Volksgarten Hotel. Approximately 50 people were beaten, and the premises’ furnishings were destroyed. Upon seeing Hitler enter the courtroom, the accused Nazis rose from the bench and stood throughout his entire testimony, thus showing him great respect. The crux of Hitler’s testimony was his claim that he had not founded an anti-state organization, and that it would be “madness” to use force against the German state. In his opinion, Marxist parties were using terror at the time, and the state failed to protect the rights of its citizens. In this way, Hitler attempted to justify the existence of his own defense organization, the SA (Die Sturmabteilungen der NSDAP), or Storm Troops. He was asked if he supported a revolutionary coup. Each time he declared that he sought power only through legal channels, and wanted to achieve victory only through the ballot box, and not by force. On 12 June 1930, Adolf Hitler reappeared in Świdnica for an appeal trial, but the verdict issued satisfied neither side. The National Socialists felt aggrieved that only one of the accused was acquitted, while the others were sentenced to prison terms ranging from three days to five months.

The first trial took place from December 2 to 23, 1929, and the appeal hearing from June 10 to July 5, 1930. At each of these trials, Adolf Hitler appeared as a witness, testifying about his party’s political goals.

10 October 2025

Hitler Inspects a Train 🚂

Adolf Hitler performs an inspection of a locomotive at the marshalling yard in Nuremberg on the occasion of the centenary of the Deutsche Reichsbahn on 8 December 1935. After delivering a speech in front of 30,000 listeners, he took the acceptance of a train parade and an inspection of individual cars. Next to Hitler is Secretary of State Dr. Hans Heinrich Lammers, Head of the State Chancellery; right next to the stairs Wehrmachtsadjutant Colonel Friedrich Hossbach (3rd from left); far right: the personal Adjutant SA-Obergruppenführer Wilhelm Brückner.

6 October 2025

A Moment of Solitude ⛰️

Photographer Hugo Jaeger captures Adolf Hitler standing in front of the lowered panorama window in the Great Hall of the Berghof, looking across the large conference table at the Untersberg mountain.

21 September 2025

Hitler Attends a Wagner Celebration 🎶

Extremely rare photograph taken of Adolf Hitler by then 14 year old Wieland Wagner on 6 June 1931 at the Gasthof Zur Behringersmühle. Hitler had participated in a celebration on the occasion of the birthday of the deceased composer Siegfried Wagner in the garden of the Gasthof zur Behringersmühle located in Behringersmühle 8. Hitler travelled to Bayreuth afterwards and continued his visit with the Wagner family at the Villa Wahnfried.

20 September 2025

Hitler Attends a Law Meeting 📜

Adolf Hitler attends the Annual Meeting of the Academy of German Law at the University of Munich on 29 June 1935. The academy held 7 annual conferences and some 15 plenary sessions between 1933 and 1940. Though officially headquartered in Munich, on 6 June 1935, the academy also acquired a house and property at Leipziger Platz 15 in Berlin where much of its administrative operations were housed.

19 September 2025

Hitler Gets a Tan 🌞

Adolf Hitler out on the sun terrace of the Eagle’s Nest in a photo from 19 July 1939, after enjoying lunch with Robert Ley and his wife Inga Ley.

18 September 2025

Hitler Signs Autographs ✍️

Adolf Hitler signing autograph cards out on the terrace of Haus Wachenfeld in October 1933.

26 August 2025

Hitler and the New Reichstag 🗳️

Adolf Hitler greets one of the new Nazi Reichstag members in Berlin on 29 August 1932 before giving a speech before the Nazi Reichstag faction in the Hotel Kaiserhof. Franz von Papen’s speech and the new Reichstag opening have paused the assembly of the new Nazi Reichstag delegates in the Hotel Kaiserhof, where Adolf Hitler has sworn them to the National Socialist program directions. The Nazi officers also take an oath of complete allegiance to Hitler.

At the time of the German elections in the summer of 1932, von Papen, President Hindenburg, and other German leaders were hoping that the rising Nazi menace would be dissipated by providing for National Socialist participation in a rightist-centrist government. Hitler refused all overtures inviting such collaboration, even when suggested by President Hindenburg himself, insisting upon assuming the chancellorship without obligation to any other parties. 

28 July 2025

Hitler and the RAD 🪏

Adolf Hitler gives a speech on the Zeppelinfeld to the Reichsarbeitsdienst (Reich Labor Service) before 52,000 attendees at the Reich Party Congress in Nuremberg on 6 September 1934. This pair of photographs are attributed to American photographer Constance Stuart Larrabee. During her time in Munich, Larrabee photographed Nazi propaganda posters, swastika flags and documented party rallies and events. Long after the photograph was printed, someone, presumably the photographer herself, wrote “The Cause of World War II ~ 1939 – 1945” onto it.

18 July 2025

Hitler Drives Through Ettal 🚙

Adolf Hitler passes through the small village of Ettal in Bavaria, driven by his chauffeur Erich Kempka, on his way to Oberammergau to see the Passion Play on 13 August 1934. He passes in front of a restaurant located at 16 Kaiser-Ludwig-Platz, directly across the street from the Ettal Monastery. The monastery later provided refuge to individuals who opposed Hitler’s regime, including Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, known for his involvement in the resistance movement against Hitler. He stayed at Ettal as a guest of the Abbot from November 1940 to February 1941.

11 June 2025

Hitler Lands in Warsaw ✈️

Adolf Hitler arrives in Warsaw at 11.30 a.m. on 5 October 1939 at the Okecie airfield (now Chopin airport) at Żwirki i Wigury. In the car with him are Colonel General Johannes Blaskowitz and Hitler’s driver Erich Kempka. Hitler rides in the open car through the city, which is heavily secured by German troops. Around 12.30 p.m. he has the acceptance of the victory parade of the eighth army (who captured the city of Warsaw from Polish troops).

7 June 2025

Hitler Hosts War Veterans 🎖️

On the Berghof on the Obersalzberg, Hitler holds a special reception of Carl Eduards of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha, and fellow Frontkämpfer, veterans of the First World War on 17 February 1937.

3 June 2025

Hitler’s Chauffeur 🚗

Adolf Hitler chats with early Nazi confidants Adolf Wagner, Franz Xaver Schwarz and Philipp Bouhler during the election campaign of the NSDAP for the local Munich elections in November 1929. The driver of Hitler’s Mercedes is Michael Steinbinder, who was a German paramilitary activist and SS Führer who later obtained the rank of an SS-Obersturmführer. He became known as the chauffeur of Adolf Hitler and the Reich treasurer Franz Xaver Schwarz.

2 June 2025

Handsome Adolf 💓

Oh my, be still my heart! 💗💗💗 This is a RARE one indeed, an early photograph of Hitler from 1925. The 9th of November 1925 to be exact, when the Schutzstaffel (SS) was officially founded to serve as Hitler’s personal protection. Hitler’s chauffeur, Julius Schreck, served as the Reichsführer of the first unit. Also pictured seated in Hitler’s Mercedes are Julius Schaub, Hansjörg Maurer and Edmund Schneider. The Schutzstaffel was founded during a meeting held in the restaurant located in the basement of the Torbräu Hotel in Munich. The Nazi Party often held meetings and gatherings there as it was located across the street from the NSDAP headquarters at the Sterneckerbräu beer hall. 

31 May 2025

Hitler in Weimar

Adolf Hitler in Weimar after a speech delivered in the citizens’ association house  for the Führertagung of the NSDAP on 20 January 1929. The evening before he had also delivered a speech for the Führertagung in the hall of the Bürgerverein in the Hotel Elephant before attending performances of Cyrano by Bergerac and Tannhäuser.

30 May 2025

Hitler in Cologne

Adolf Hitler inspects a Magirus field kitchen (Feldküche) during an exhibition in Cologne on 28 March 1936. The Magirus-Feldküche was a mobile kitchen unit used by the German military for preparing food in the field. Hitler attended the Expo while attending a cerebration held in his honor following the Occupation of the Rhineland. The four Rhenish Gauleiters had organised a standing reception for Hitler in the Cologne borough of Gürzenich, to thank him for the remilitarization of the Rhineland. 

14 May 2025

Hitler in a Trench Coat 🧥

Adolf Hitler in conversation with Franz Pfeffer von Salomon on 13 May 1928 in Munich during the NSDAP election campaign for the Reichstags State election. Rosenberg stands behind them in coat and hat; Schaub can be seen to the right in profile.

13 May 2025

Hitler at a Fiber Expo 🧶

In Weimar, Adolf Hitler visits the fiber exhibition of the Thuringian Zellwolle AG on 7 November 1938. He examines special fibers created from potatoes. Potato fibers are said to have similar properties to cotton and polyester, which make them suitable for various textile application. This is also the same day that 17 year old Jewish man Herschel Grynszpan shot German diplomat Ernst Eduard vom Rath in Paris in protest against the anti-Jewish policy of the Germans and in revenge for the fate of his family. The Nazis used this assassination as a pretext to launch Kristallnacht, “The Night of Broken Glass”, the pogrom of 9–10 November 1938.

12 May 2025

Hitler at the Brown House

“The Führer at the meeting of the Amtswalter (an Administrator, Official or local Party boss) at the Brown House on 4 February 1932. Adolf Hitler has a close relationship with his loyal colleagues.”

11 May 2025

Hitler at the Sportpalast

Adolf Hitler on 16 November 1928 in the packed Berlin Sportpalast, for the first time with electro-acoustic amplification…

“For the first time, Adolf Hitler used the support of a loudspeaker system, so that the Führer’s words could be heard clearly and distinctly in every corner of the gigantic hall”

7 May 2025

Hitler in Hagen

Adolf Hitler visited Franz Pfeffer von Salomon at his home Haus Busch from 14. to 21. June 1926. Hitler appears at the top right of the stairs approaching his car. Before 1936, Adolf Hitler used to stay at the home of Franz Pfeffer von Salomon on the Feldmühlenstrasse in Hagen when he was in the Rheinland. In 1936, the mayer of Hagen wanted to turn the rooms that Hitler used to stay in into historical Führer-Zimmers. Pfeffer von Salomon had also organized the resistance against the French occupation of the Ruhrgebied from this house from 1923 until 1926. As a reminder of the Kampfzeit and as proof of the roll of the city Hagen a special Hitlerroom was planned. The plans were not carried out though because of the war and the fact that Pfeffer von Salomon had fallen out of grace.

3 May 2025

Hitler Gives a Speech 🎤

Adolf Hitler giving a speech at the Neue Welt, Hasenheide, Neukölln, Berlin on 4 December 1930 to the National Socialist German Student’s League (NSDStB).

7 March 2025

Hitler Waves From His Window 👋

Adolf Hitler waves to admirers in Prinzregentenplatz from one of the windows at the front of the apartment in Munich after returning from his victory in Memel on 24 March 1939.

6 March 2025

Hitler at the Ostmarkstadion 🏟️

Adolf Hitler delivers a speech in the Ostmarkstadion (now Olimpijski Slubice SOSiR Stadium) in Frankfurt an der Oder against the existing system and its representatives in front of 30,000 listeners on 22 April 1932. President von Hindenburg had ordered the disbanding of Hitler’s fascist army, but this picture shows how little notice has been taken.

5 March 2025

Hitler in a Tragic Train Accident 🚂

Adolf Hitler travelled to Bremerhaven to tour the armored ship “Admiral Scheer” in dense fog on 14 December 1934. On his special train back to Berlin, there was a collision with a coach of the artist group Camper Speeldeel with 16 fatalities. The German theater group Camper Speeldeel was founded in 1922 in Campe. The acting group was on the road with twenty people headed to Verden (Aller) when the bus broke through a railway barrier in thick fog and was struck by Adolf Hitler’s special train coming from Bremerhaven. Thirteen of the bus passengers were killed immediately. Three later died of their injuries.

4 March 2025

Hitler at an Expo 🏗️

Adolf Hitler visiting the exhibition  ‘Schaffendes Volk’ (constructive people) in Duesseldorf on 2 October 1937- Photographer: Presse-Illustrationen Heinrich Hoffmann- Published by: ‘Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung’ 40/1937

3 March 2025

Hitler in Stettin 🛳️

Adolf Hitler taking salute at the march-past of storm troopers in Szczecin during the meeting if the Pomeranian section of the Nazi Party on 12 June 1938. Reception by Gauleiter Franz Schwede-Coburg and a speech was delivered in the Landhaus at the Gauparteitag of Pomerania. Also the laying of the foundation stone for 578 homes for the Hitler Youth. Planned months in advance, the Führer’s visit was reported in an extremely lively manner by the Pommersche Zeitung. On the big day, an estimated 100,000 spectators swelled the streets of Stettin, all eager to get a glimpse of the Führer.

28 February 2025

Hitler talks Money💰

Adolf Hitler holds a meeting at the Chancellory with Reich Minister of Economics Dr. Hjalmar Schacht on 26 November 1935 regarding the foreign exchange development, in which a deficit of 376 million Reichmarks is determined. 

27 February 2025

Hitler at the Reichswehr Ministry 🏢

Adolf Hitler departing the Reichswehr Ministry Bendlerblock building in Berlin (Reichswehrministerium) after negotiations with Kurt von Schleicher and Franz von Papen regarding his Reich Chancellorship on 13 August 1932. Hitler had demanded the post of Reich Chancellor, but was only offered the post of Vice Chancellor, which he rejected. 

22 February 2025

Hitler’s Dog Fuchsl 🐶

Here is something really special: Film footage featuring Adolf Hitler amongst his fellow soldiers during World War I. The small white Jack Russell terrier was a stray that Hitler had found in the trenches in early 1915. He named him Fuchsl (Little Fox) and he taught him so many tricks that Hitler later described him as a “proper circus dog”. In August 1917 the List Regiment was transferred to a quiet sector of the front in Alsace for rest. During the journey, a railroad official had offered Hitler 200 marks for Fuchsl but Hitler had refused, saying, “You could give me two hundred thousand and you wouldn’t get him!” But after Hitler had left the station with the troops he couldn’t find Fuchsl and realized that his cherished dog had been taken. “I was desperate,” he said, “the swine who stole my dog doesn’t know what he did to me.” 

Over twenty years later, Hitler would remember, “How many times at Fromelles, during the First World War, I studied my dog Fuchsl… I used to watch him as if he’d been a man. It was crazy how fond I was of the beast.”

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21 February 2025

Hitler at an Airport 🛫

“The Führer greets his war comrade at Ainring airfield (Reichsflughafen).” The Reichenhall-Berchtesgaden Airport was the government airport for the Obersalzberg during the time of National Socialism. It was located on the territory of the municipality of Ainring in today’s district of Mitterfelden. The site is built up today. In April 1933, on behalf of Adolf Hitler, the exploration of an airfield for his second seat of government on Obersalzberg near Berchtesgaden began. Neither the investigation of the existing Mayerhof airport in Bad Reichenhall on 10 July 1933 nor the exploration of Salzburg-Maxglan Airport in neighboring Austria satisfied the requirements. During a flight over the region, Hitler committed himself to a free field in the municipal area of Ainring. On 1 August 1933 the first local appointment took place and on 16 August, Hitler ordered the purchase of the site and the expansion into the airport. On the 15th of September, the first experimental landing took place on behalf of Deutsche Lufthansa, Head of South. From the 7th October, the airfield was managed under the name sports airfield and on 21 January 1934 officially inaugurated, and on August 28, a plane landed for the first time with Hitler as a passenger. Goering flew for the first time on 31 August 1934 from the airport Reichenhall Berchtesgaden to Berlin. 

20 February 2025

Hitler at an Airport 🛫

Adolf Hitler in conversation with the director of Süddeutsche Lufthansa, Major Emil Hailer, at the Süddeutsche Lufthansa airfield in Munich in 1933. Munich’s Air Controller Hailer had worked with Hitler’s pilot Hans Baur to find suitable land to build an airfield for his private Ju.52 in the neighborhood of Obersalzberg. The Salzburg airfield was in Austrian territory and therefore not at their disposal. A suitable field was found and quickly laid out, and hangars for three Ju.52s and various auxiliary buildings were erected at Flugplatz Ainring bei Reichenhall that was used until 1938, when the airfield at Salzburg on the Austrian side of the frontier became available at last. 

19 February 2025

Hitler’s New Party Buildings 🏢 

Adolf Hitler with Lieutenant General Walter von Reichenau on the balcony of the ‘Führerbau’ at the Königliche Platz (Königsplatz) in Munich on the day of the inauguration of the new party buildings; in the background, the Propyläen on 3 November 1935.

7 February 2025

Hitler Gives a Speech 🎤

Adolf Hitler landing on the Galgenberg in Würzburg in a Lufthansa plane about 5 p.m. on 6 April 1932. Robert Greim, director of the Würzburg aviation school, welcomes Hitler as he heads on to deliver a speech in the Frankenhalle during his presidential election campaign. When he came to Würzburg, Hitler was accompanied by a large group of people, including 27-year-old British journalist Sefton Delmer who worked for the London newspaper “Daily Express“. Delmer had been introduced to Hitler by Ernst Röhm and travelled extensively with him during his three week campaign. 

5 February 2025

Hitler Gives a Speech 🎤

Adolf Hitler arrives in Villingen-Schwenningen to present a presidential election campaign speech on 9 April 1932. The speech was given in front of 25,000 people gathered in a tent hall set up on Rottweilerstraße.

2 February 2025

Hitler and Karl Litzmann

Adolf Hitler in conversation with General Karl Litzmann and his daughter during the autumn maneuvers of the VI. Army Corps on the Lüneburg Heath on 6 September 1935.

1 February 2025

Hitler and Rundstedt 🎖️

German Field Marshall Gerd von Rundstedt with Adolf Hitler in the Reich Chancellery on the occasion of his appointment as Chief of the 18th Infantry Regiment in Bielefeld on 4 November 1938.

30 January 2025

Hitler at a Funeral 🪦

Funeral service in the Nietzsche Archive in Weimar for the sister of Friedrich Nietzsche, Elisabeth Foerster-Nietzsche, in the presence of Adolf Hitler; next to him to the left: Minister of State Fritz Waechtler and the Thuringian Minister President Willy Marschler, to the right: Reichstatthalter Fritz Sauckel (almost covered) on 11 November 1935.

29 January 2025

Hitler in Bad Elster

Adolf Hitler, Wilhelm Frick and Julius Schaub in Bad Elster on the occasion of the Führertagung der NSDAP on 22 June 1930.

28 January 2025

Hitler at the Mengele Factory 🏭

Adolf Hitler paid a visit to Günzburg on 11 October 1932 to give a speech in the Karl-Mengele-Maschinenfabrik in front of 7000 listeners. 

27 January 2025

Hitler at Ribbentrop’s Birthday Party 🥳

Adolf Hitler visits Joachim Von Ribbentrop on his 46th birthday on 30 April 1939 at Von Ribbentrop’s villa in Berlin Dahlem. On 18 January 1933, Hitler had held the first of several secret meetings with von Papen at this location prior to the Seizure of Power. It is said that whenever Hitler saw Joachim’s wife Annelies he always said: there is the Iron One, “She wears the trousers” in the house of Ribbentrop. Here the family is pictured with the 2 youngest of their five children who are Rudolf, Bertina, Adolf, Ursula and Barthold.

26 January 2025

Hitler and Prien 🎖️

Reception of the U-boat commander Lieutenant Gunther Prien by Adolf Hitler in the Reich Chancellery in Berlin on 31 October 1940, where he was awarded with the Oak Leaves to the Knight’s Cross for his achievements in the U-boat war.

23 January 2025

Hitler Portrait taken in 1938 📸

Half-length studio portrait taken of Hitler on 6 December 1938 at Photo Verlag Röhr, Magdeburg. The photographer Robert Röhr ran a studio in Breite Weg 187 and was active as a publisher of photo postcards in and around Magdeburg. In addition to portraits he also took architectural, landscape and industrial photographs. On this particular day he also took formal portraits of Göring and Himmler. On Hitler’s behalf, Hermann Göring had held a meeting this same day with Gauleiters, Reichsstatthalter and Oberpräsidenten gathered in Magdeburg.

22 January 2025

Hitler visits Hindenburg

Adolf Hitler leaves the manor house at the Neudeck estate after a meeting with Reich President Paul von Hindenburg, reporting on the suppression of the “Röhmputsch”. In the door is the son of the Reich President, Colonel Oskar von Hindenburg. On Hitler’s right is his adjutant Wilhelm Brueckner, on his left is an SS guard on 3 July 1934.

21 January 2025

Hitler Postcard 💌

Rare Adolf Hitler postcard from 1939, a new one that I’m so thrilled to have discovered tonight and excited to add to my rapidly growing postcard collection!

9 January 2025

Hitler in Kassel 📸

Adolf Hitler sat for a photographer in Kassel, Franz Langhammer, on the day of the inauguration of the Adolf-Hitler-Hauses on 11 February 1933. Rare early portrait of Hitler that was not a Hoffmann photo.  

4 January 2025

Hitler Receives a Special Gift 🎁

On 30 June 1937, Adolf Hitler receives a belated birthday present in the Reich Chancellery. Representatives of the Reich Association of German Officials presented him with the “Sound Monument of Reich German Dialects” (Lautdenkmal der Mundarten) – a collection of 300 shellac records with recordings of dialect speakers from all areas of the Reich. The recordings were stored in an elaborately crafted wooden cabinet weighing five hundred pounds with a built-in record player. The opened double doors showed an inlaid map with the recording locations. On the initiative of the Reich Official Leader Hermann Neef, a team of dialectologists and sound engineers had spent several months in a Telefunken recording van visiting villages and small towns between the North Sea and the Alps to have selected farmers, craftsmen and workers speak into the microphone.

3 January 2025

Hitler Meets a Conductor 🎶

World renowned classical music conductor Karl Muck speaks with Adolf Hitler during his visit to the Leipzig Gewandhaus for a concert commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of Richard Wagner on 12 February 1933.

30 December 2024

Hitler in a Special Photo 📸

This picture represents one of the happiest experiences of my life, as well as one of the most crushing moments that I have ever endured, exactly one year ago today. I am amazed that I did not break beneath the devastating pain of rejection, and arrived at the discovery that I’m actually much more resilient than the world ever gave me credit for. Everything happens for a reason, I may never know the reason, but in 2024 I finally learned to make peace with that, as well as with myself. And for that I am grateful.

27 December 2024

Hitler as a Witness 🏛️

Adolf Hitler serves as a witness on 8 May 1931 in the criminal court on Turmstraße 91 in Berlin at the Edenpalast trial. Lawyer Hans Litten cross examined Hitler for 3 hours during this trial against Hitler’s SA Rollkommando that had attacked the Eden Dance Palace, popular with left-wing workers, killing 3 people and injuring many others. Hitler swore he had prohibited his storm troopers to use or possess firearms. At his left stands Dr. Lippert, Mayor of Berlin at that time; at his right sits Dr Hans Frank, later Governor of Nazi-occupied Poland; in the rear, between Hitler and Lippert is the face of Rudolf Hess, former leader, third in command, of the Nazi Party. The photographs were made secretly. 

20 December 2024

Hitler Visits a Disaster Site 🔥

Adolf Hitler crosses the city of Pforzheim on 14 September 1933 on his way to visit the district of Auf der Steig in Öschelbronn, which was in a fire disaster on 10 September 1933 and completely destroyed. An ammunition factory had exploded with catastrophic force and destroyed 203 homes. Arriving in Öschelbronn at around 13:45, Hitler inspected the site of the fire with numerous onlookers. One year after the fire, the reconstruction of Öschelbronn was essentially complete.

19 December 2024

Hitler at Böblingen Airport ✈️

Adolf Hitler at the Stuttgart-Böblingen Airport on 29 July 1932. He had flown from Wiesbaden-Erbenheim to Böblingen and continued on by car to Reutlingen to give a speech, held in a tent on the race meadow in Moltkestraße in front of 15,000 participants. 

16 December 2024

Hitler at the Circus Krone

Adolf Hitler at a promotional event of the SA in the Circus Krone in Munich in April 1931: “Join the SA”, a call to strengthen the NSDAP’s Sturmabteilung.

15 December 2024

Hitler and the Reichsbahn 🚂

Adolf Hitler with the Director General of the German Reichsbahn, Dr. Julius Dorpmüller, at a visit on the site of the marshaling station Nuremberg on the occasion of the centenary celebration of the Reichsbahn on 8 December 1935.

14 December 2024

Hitler at the Siegfried Haus 🎻

Adolf Hitler photographed by Wieland Wagner at the Siegfried House at Villa Wahnfried in July 1936. Next to the Haus Wahnfried by Richard Wagner stands the Siegfried Haus, which his son Siegfried Wagner built for himself in 1894. It was modified in 1930 to the Art Deco style and lived in by his widow, Winifred, until her death in 1980. The decor on the ground floor has been kept in its original 1930s appearance. Many of the Nazi greats, starting with Hitler, spent time here at the invitation of Siegfried’s wife Winifred.

13 December 2024

Hitler Breaks New Ground 🕳️

During the conference of the “Old Fighters” in Weimar, Fritz Sauckel symbolically breaks ground for the party buildings at the Platz Des Führers (Adolf-Hitler-Platz, later Weimarplatz) in front of the Landesmuseum. Adolf Hitler shakes hands with Gauleiter Sauckel to celebrate the first National Socialist construction project in Weimar on 4 July 1936.

12 December 2024

Hitler Honors Bruckner 🎼

Adolf Hitler laying a wreath before Anton Bruckner’s bust at Valhalla in Regensburg on 6 June 1937. Bruckner was an Austrian composer best known for his symphonies, which are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism. The National Socialist Party used the orchestral music of Bruckner to accompany a number of important party events, including Hitler’s 50th birthday celebration, where his Fifth Symphony was played. After German radio announced Hitler’s death the Adagio of the Seventh Symphony was played as a kind of funeral music for the Nazi dictator.

11 December 2024

Hitler Birthday Postcard 🎉

Postcard published in honor of Hitler’s 45th birthday on 20 April 1934. This photograph appears to have been taken several years earlier though during his “Fighting Days” before he became Chancelor af Germany.

10 December 2024

Hitler Honors a Sailor 🛳️

Adolf Hitler receives sailor Fritz Roethke, the only survivor of the sunken steamer ‘Isis’. On 8 November 1936 the German cargo liner ISIS, while on a voyage from Hamburg to New York, sent out an S.O.S. call, while reporting that she was taking water through hatch No. 1. Isis sank off Land’s End in a severe storm before any of the ships coming to her rescue reached the place. Roethke was the only survivor of her crew of 40.

9 December 2024

Hitler at a Concert 🎶

Nazi Leadership At Benefit Concert Left to right: Emmy Goering, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Goering at a benefit concert by the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra for the Winterhilfswerk (WHW) Nazi social welfare organization at the Berliner Philharmonie concert hall in Berlin on 10 February 1937. The orchestra is conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler. 

8 December 2024

Hitler in Darmstadt

Adolf Hitler with Hermann Göring and other NSDAP members at an assembly and commemoration for the Gauleiter of Hesse-Darmstadt, Peter Gemeinder, who died on 29 August 1931. In front of them (with a lighter jacket in the foreground) stands the successor of Gemeinder, Gauleiter Karl Lenz. Speech in the Festhalle at the Exerzierplatz southeast of Rheinstraße near the main station in front of 30,000 participants on 13 November 1931.

7 December 2024

Hitler’s Frederick the Great Painting 🖼️

In the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler is seen with his Chief of Staff, Viktor Lutze, head of the Sturmabteilung (SA). Behind the two men is a portrait of Frederick the Great of Prussia (1712-1786). This setting, central to the political operations of Nazi Germany, underscores the significant working relationship between Hitler and his senior staff. Lutze, as a key figure in the regime, played a vital role in coordinating activities and executing policies. Hitler later gave this favorite portrait of Frederick the Great, painted by Anton Graff in 1780, to his pilot, Hans Bauer. He was subsequently captured by the Russians, who took the painting from him, but it was since returned and is currently displayed at Schloss Charlottenburg in Berlin.

6 December 2024

Hitler Arrives at Devau Aiport 🛬

“Gauleiter Koch begrüßt den Führer auf dem Flughafen Devau” (tr. “Gauleiter Koch welcomes the Führer at Devau airport”) Adolf Hitler arrives for the 1932 July Hitler Woche (Hitler Week) Ostpreussen rally, when Hitler gave series of speeches from 17-19 July 1932 in Königsberg.

5 December 2024

Hitler Attends a Craft Fair 🪡

Adolf Hitler attends the Leipziger Trade Fair with Gauleiter Mutschmann on 6 March 1934. He visits the exhibition Sachsenfleiß, the technical fair and the Saar exhibition, followed by a speech and laying of the foundation stone of the Richard Wagner National Monument.

2 December 2024

Hitler Attends a Horse Show 🐴

Adolf Hitler greets Germany’s best woman equestrian competitor of the 1930s, Irmgard Georgius, on 2 February 1936 at a riding tournament in Berlin.

1 December 2024

Hitler Attends a Banquet 🍽️

Adolf Hitler enjoys an outdoor banquet in Berchtesgaden with his physician Karl Brandt and his wife Anni. He has his bottle of Fachinger in front of him as he converses with Anni Brandt seated directly across from him. Anni was good friends with Eva Braun, who took this photograph in 1937.

30 November 2024

Hitler Hosts a Party 🎂

Adolf Hitler greets Reich Treasurer Schwarz, arriving in chauffeur driven Adolf Hitler’s official Mercedes convertible motorcar 27 November 1938 at Hitler’s Bavarian home for his birthday celebration. Franz Xaver Schwarz was a high ranking German Nazi Party official who served as Reichsschatzmeister (National Treasurer) of the Party throughout most of its existence. He was also one of the highest ranking members of the Schutzstaffel (SS). Franz Xaver Schwarz joined the NSDAP in 1922 and participated in the failed Beer Hall Putsch of November 1923. He left his job as an accountant at the Munich City Hall to become the full-time Treasurer of the Nazi Party on 21 March 1925 and also raised the money for the publication of Adolf Hitler’s book, Mein Kampf. 

29 November 2024

Hitler at the Navy Yard 🚢

On 12 December 1933, Hitler made an air trip to Wilhelmshaven from Berlin. Welcome and speech to the crew of the cruise ship Cologne at the lock. Hitler visited Wilhelmshaven as German Chancellor to discuss the new construction program for the German Navy with Reich Defense Minister von Blomberg (right) and Navy Commander-in-Chief Dr. Raeder (left). (Behind Hitler: Reich Chancellery Chief Lammers) In 1939, Hitler gave his infamous anti-British speech from Wilhelmshaven, which provoked the Second World War. 

28 November 2024

Hitler at the Navy Yard 🚢

In good faith with Hitler’s peace assertions, German Senator Daniel Picker (left) introduces Hitler to the shipyard and navy in Wilhelmshaven in 1929. Besides Hitler: Gauleiter Röver, Heinrich Himmler and Rudolf Hess. Senator Picker’s son, Henry Picker, was born in Wilhelmshaven and became a member of the Nazi Party in 1930, and in 1942 became a senior executive and legal staff member in the Führer Headquarters. Picker’s version of Hitler’s “Table Talk” was published in 1951.

27 November 2024

Hitler Signs a Special Autograph ✍️

Adolf Hitler is passed several photographs and a large postcard to autograph for a young child while he is out campaigning for the Presidency in 1932.

26 November 2024

Hitler at the Hochlenzer

Adolf Hitler in July 1931 in the rear portion of the Hochlenzer restaurant on the Obersalzberg. He’s standing with the nephews of early NSDAP member Gottfried Feder.

25 November 2024

Hitler Looks at 3D Photos 📷

On 1 July 1939, the Führer, accompanied by the Reich photo reporter, Prof. Heinrich Hoffmann, paid a visit to the Raumbild-Verlag Otto Schönstein K.-G. in Munich to obtain a detailed report on the activities and success of the designated field of 3D photography. The guide held the viewer and studied the colored spatial images from many publications that lay before him. 

23 November 2024

Hitler Catches a Cold 🤧

I can’t prove for certain that this photograph was taken on 2 March 1932, but it is well documented that Hitler was suffering from a bad cold on his extensive campaign trip through Pomerania on this day. Despite his cold, Hitler still participated in the appeal in the Pommernhalle and gave a speech in the exhibition hall in front of 10,000 listeners in Stettin. Gesundheit!

22 November 2024

Hitler at Haus Wahnfried

Adolf Hitler sits on Winifred Wagner’s couch in Haus Wahnfried while attending the Wagner Opera Festival. The name of the house was given by composer Richard Wagner to his villa in Bayreuth, a German compound of the words Wahn (delusion) and Fried (peace). Hitler was a frequent visitor to the home and a much beloved friend of the Wagner family.

20 November 2024

Hitler in Bad Reichenhall

Adolf Hitler leaving the Kurhaus in Bad Reichenhall after the Reichsführertagung of the SA, SS and ‘Stahlhelm’; behind Hitler is his personal adjutant SS-Führer Julius Schaub on 2 July 1933.

18 November 2024

Hitler and his Blitzmädels

A huge honor for this “Nachrichtenhelferin” of the Heer, an army intelligence assistant welcomes the Führer in the occupied territory. More than half a million women were Wehrmacht assistants in all three Wehrmacht parts of the Army, Navy and Air Force as well as in the Waffen-SS. More than half of them volunteered, the others were on emergency service or on guard duty. By the end of the war, some military units consisted almost exclusively of female auxiliary personnel.

17 November 2024

Hitler and Hans Schemm

Adolf Hitler attends a rally in 1928 with Hans Schemm. When the NSDAP was re-founded in February 1925, Hans Schemm took over the reorganization of the NSDAP in Bayreuth and soon after in Upper Franconia. On the occasion of a rally in Kulmbach in May 1927, Schemm was proclaimed “Frankenführer”. In October 1927, Adolf Hitler confirmed him as district leader of the party for eastern Upper Franconia. After the founding of the Gaues Oberfranken on 1 October 1928, Schemm was appointed Gauleiter and thus definitively the Nazi leading figure for Bayreuth and Upper Franconia.

12 November 2024

Hitler at a Concert 🎵

Adolf Hitler at a concert of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra on 1 February 1935 in the Philharmonie in Berlin. The NS-Kulturgemeide (National Socialist Cultural Community), an organization established in 1934, evolved from Alfred Rosenberg’s Kampfbund für Deutsche Kultur founded in 1928 to oversee cultural education and the arts. In attendance for the Winter Relief concert are from left: the Munich Gauleiter Adolf Wagner, SA-Group Leader Wilhelm Brueckner, Adolf Hitler, Reich Leader Alfred Rosenberg, adjutant Fritz Wiedemann and Reich Leader Philip Bouhler.

26 October 2024

Hitler at the Haus Elephant 🐘

Adolf Hitler emerges at the window of his special suite at the old Haus Elephant hotel in Weimar on 3 July 1936 before going to deliver his commemoration speech on the tenth anniversary of the Weimar Reich Party Congress at a state reception in the Weimar City Palace. 

25 October 2024

Hitler at a Birthday Party 🥳

Adolf Hitler congratulating Emma Blomberg, the mother of the Reich War Minister Werner von Blomberg (left) on her 90th Birthday on 18 December 1937.

12 October 2024

Hitler at the Farm Fair 🐮

Der Führer Adolf Hitler shows lively enthusiasm as he meets a girl from Berchtesgaden, Upper Bavaria at the National Agricultural Fair in Munich on June 8, 1937. The girl, in native costume, attended an exhibit which was an hereditary farm constructed especially for the fair. With Hitler, at left, is Minister of Agriculture Walther Darre.

30 October 2023

Hitler Gives a Speech in the Snow ❄️

Adolf Hitler gives a speech in the snow during the inauguration of the memorial to the memory of German poet Dietrich Eckart on 30 October 1933 in Neumarkt, Germany.

19 October 2023

Hitler Speaks at Karl Dinklage’s Funeral 🪦

On 19 October 1930 Adolf Hitler makes a speech in front of Braunschweig’s cemetery chapel at the funeral of Karl Dincklage, who served as the Deputy Gauleiter and Deputy Supreme SA Leader in Hanover.

13 October 2023

Hitler’s Gun Permit 🔫 

Hitler’s gun permit for a .22 caliber revolver issued to him on 26 November 1921 in München. He is shown in a 1918 photo for the permit. This was kept by Hitler’s housekeeper, Anni Winter, who retrieved it from his desk in May 1945 before the Americans raided Hitler’s apartment. His revolver bore the serial number 709. This is the weapon he used to fire two bullets in the ceiling of the Burgerbraukeller during the Munich putsch. In addition, he intimidated von Kahr with it, to force him to join the putsch. In 1925, shortly after his release from Landsberg prison, he formed a relationship with his seventeen-year-old niece, Geli Raubal. They lived in his nine-room apartment on Prinzregentenplatz 16. But Hitler was a jealous lover who did not let young Geli live her life. In 1931, Geli, in Hitler’s absence, commits suicide in the apartment with this revolver. 

2 October 2023

Hitler Takes A Ride On A Miniature Train 🚂 

TOOT TOOT! All Aboard!! Take a look at Der Führer enjoying a ride on this adorable teeny tiny train! When Adolf Hitler visited Friedrich Karl Florian in Düsseldorf on 2 October 1937, they took a train ride on the Miniature RR Train that was created for the Düsseldorf Great Exhibition of 1926, the Liliput Steam Locomotive, or Liliputbahn. The train was still in use during his visit to the 1937 exhibition “Schaffendes Volk” (Producing Folk), an expo meant to showcase the domestic accomplishments of the National Socialsts in housing, art, science, and natural-resource planning.

26 September 2023

“Cherish It”

I found another priceless treasure in my collection, one more incredible screen capture from Putschgirl’s old website. I adore both this photo and her commentary:

“I have to post this photo again. Trust me, this is about the rarest Hitler photo you will ever see. “Rarity” is subjective but this is what I’ll tell you: this photo was never published in any Nazi-era publication (book, magazine, newspaper). It was never published in any book in any language until recently.

It only has been seen since it was posted on the Internet a few weeks ago. This is Adolf Hitler as a young adorable, sexy Austrian hunk hanging out in Munich with his Duzfreund, Julius Streicher. This was taken in March, 1926 at Haus Wahnfried in Bayreuth. An incredible, rare, amazing photo. Cherish it, seriously.”

17 September 2023

“Seriously Sexy Hitler Hair” ❤️‍🔥

Another fabulous screen capture that I saved from Putschgirl’s website adolfhitler33.wordpress.com that was taken down this past July. She was brave enough to “admit it” and even embrace the intense physical attraction many of us out there share for this man and may have even experienced much shame and embarrassment about, or perhaps struggled for years trying ro keep our unusual secret hidden away, but came to know and to be reassured that we don’t struggle with this all alone 🙏

16 September 2023

Hitler On A Battleship 🚢

Screen capture that I saved from Putschgirl’s fantastic website adolfhitler33.wordpress.com that was taken down in early July 2023. I really miss her insightful comments. I’m so glad I still have this!

17 August 2023

Hitler Hosts a Prince 👑

Adolf Hitler hosts a reception for Prince Regent Paul of Yugoslavia in the Reich Chancellery in June 1939. Prince Paul, as acting head of state, accepted the official invitation from Hitler and spent nine days in Berlin.

16 August 2023

Hitler’s American Dancer 💃

Adolf Hitler developed quite an infatuation with American dancer Marion Daniels during her tour of Germany in 1939.

15 August 2023

Hitler’s Wild Parties

Adolf Hitler loved to host large parties, especially once the new Reich Chancellory was completed in Berlin. Actresses, artists, and dancers were frequent guests, especially beautiful young women. The 1939 Carnival party was said to be an especially epic gathering and celebration.

14 August 2023

Hitler at a Movie Premiere

Adolf Hitler at the premiere of the Italian Balilla film ‘Mario’ at the UFA Palast am Zoo in Berlin. In the presence of Adolf Hitler right to left: Joseph Goebbels, the Italian Ambassador Bernardo Attolico, Hitler, Robert Ley, SS-Brigadier Schaub, Walther Funk, and Prof. Lehnich, President of the Film Chamber of the Reich on 18 April 1938.

13 August 2023

Hitler’s Favorite Movies

Adolf Hitler was a huge film buff that enjoyed “Laurel and Hardy” movies as well as animated Disney films like “Snow White”. It is said his favorite movie was “King Kong”.

12 August 2023

Hitler & Sister Pia

Eleonore Baur (7 September 1885 – 18 May 1981), also known as Sister Pia, was a defrocked nun and senior Nazi figure and the only woman to have participated in the Munich Beer Hall Putsch. 

11 August 2023

Tea Time with Hitler

British prime minister David Lloyd George (far left) enjoys tea with Hitler at his home in the Bavarian Alps on 4 September 1936. Lloyd George said he was entranced and fascinated by the man—”his gestures, his eyes, his voice, his talk”. After returning home he made some very generous comments about his host, which did a great deal of harm to his reputation.

10 August 2023

Hitler on a Movie Set

Adolf Hitler on the set of a movie being filmed at UFA studios in 1935 with Joseph Goebbels.

9 August 2023

Hitler & Actresses

Adolf Hitler was a huge fan of the cinema, but even more he adored being in the company of the beautiful actresses of the Silver Screen. He often hosted lavish parties at the Reich Chancellory simply to enjoy the companionship of these lovely ladies.

8 August 2023

Hitler & Winifred Wagner

Adolf Hitler with Winifred Wagner at the reception for the laying of the foundation stone at the Richard Wagner national monument in Leipzig on 6 March 1934.

7 August 2023

Hitler & Eva Braun

Adolf Hitler kisses Eva Braun’s hand out on the terrace of the Berghof.

6 August 2023

Hitler & Goebbels

Joseph Goebbels and family visit with Adolf Hitler at the Eagles Nest in 1939.

5 August 2023

Hitler & Unity Mitford

Adolf Hitler and Unity Mitford in Bayreuth for the 1936 Wagner Music Festival. Between 1935 and 1939 they met about every ten days, a total of 140 times, therefore surprisingly often.

4 August 2023

Hitler in Oldenburg

Hitler at the horse market in Oldenburg with several members of the National Socialist Oldenburg government on 5 May 1931. (from left to right) Heinz Spangemacher (Culture and Justice) and Carl Röver (Gauleiter of Gau Weser-Ems). Hitler fought hard to win over the area to vote NSDAP.  One of the largest voting blocks to win over was Catholic. The pine cone artifact on Hitler’s uniform may therefore be a play to the Catholic vote. 

3 August 2023

Hitler at Breakfast

Adolf Hitler is pictured using reading glasses at the breakfast table, but he regarded their use as a weakness. To compensate for not having to use them as a result of presbyopia, from 1933 onwards he had all his speeches and official documents written on a special typewriter with large print and huge line spaces. Hitler wanted to appear as much the omnipotent saviour as he claimed to be to the public. This prompted him to ban Hoffmann from ever publishing photos of him while wearing glasses.

2 August 2023

Hitler & Women 2

Hitler entertains a group of Austrian women in the Deutscher Hof hotel in Nuremberg in 1939. Photo: Heinrich Hoffmann / BSB / bpk

1 August 2023

Hitler & Women

Hitler entertains a group of Austrian women in the Deutscher Hof hotel in Nuremberg in 1939. Photo: Heinrich Hoffmann / BSB / bpk

31 July 2023

Hitler & Roehm

Hitler hanging out with Ernst Roehm in his Prinzregentenplatz apartment in Munich in 1931.

30 July 2023

Play It Again Putzi

Ernst “Putzi” Hanfstaengl at the piano in Joseph Goebbels’ apartment, Berlin, 1932. Listening to him, on the left is Adolf Hitler, on the right Wilma Schaub, Magda Goebbels, Wilhelm Brückner and Goebbels.

29 July 2023

Hitler & Inga Ley

Adolf Hitler talking to Inga Ley on board of the steamer ‘Robert Ley’, to the left sits her husband Robert Ley, photo taken on 1 April 1939 – Photographer: Presse-Illustrationen Heinrich Hoffmann- Published by: ‘Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung’ 15/1939

28 July 2023

Hitler & Geli

Geli shows animal-lover Hitler a wild bird that has alighted on her arm in front of Haus Wachenfeld.

27 July 2023

Hitler & Geli

Geli takes a nap on the grounds of Haus Wachenfeld while Hitler enjoys a picnic and reading a newspaper, two of his favorite pastimes.

26 July 2023

Hitler & Geli

Hitler and Geli at a restaurant with Joseph Goebbels. Geli Raubal lived in close contact with her uncle from 1925 until her presumed suicide on 18 September 1931 at age 23. Adolf Hitler was by all accounts a different person after her death. Though he’d never been kind, he was, if anything, crueler, even to his own family. According to Hitler’s photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann, had Geli not died, things could have been very different. Her death, he said, “was when the seeds of inhumanity began to grow inside Hitler.

25 July 2023

Hitler & Geli

Hitler gives a gift to Geli Raubal, his half-niece. Born in Linz, Austria, she was the second child and eldest daughter of Leo Raubal Sr. and Hitler’s half-sister, Angela Raubal.

23 July 2023

Hitler Greets Adoring Ladies

The American magazine ‘Newsweek’ reported of one of his rallies: “Women faint, when, with face purpled and contorted with effort, he blows forth his magic oratory.” Read more about this phenomenon in the NSFW version to delve even deeper into the power of Hitler’s speeches…

22 July 2023

Hitler photo c.1932

Another fabulous photo find on DeviantArt without any context, but I’m thinking 1932, out on the campaign trail. I have many other photos of Hitler from this year that look similar.

21 July 2023

Hitler photo c.1935

Another great photo find tonight! Again found on DeviantArt without any context given, but I’m thinking mid-1930’s, as Hitler is wearing this sensational leather coat that he’s also donning in several of my favorite photos of him taken between 1934-1936. **FAB-U-LOUS** 🤩

20 July 2023

Rare Hitler photo c.1925

I am so thrilled to discover this photo this evening, it’s one that I do not have!! I first thought it was from the Nuremberg Party Day of 1923 but now I’m thinking post Landsberg, as it’s signed and dated by Hitler in 1925. Amazing!! 🤩

19 July 2023

Hitler wearing SA Kepi Hat

Adolf Hitler is wearing a kepi hat with his SA uniform in this 1928 photograph. The only other photo I have of Hitler wearing this cap is from the portrait session of this same year taken at Hoffman’s studio in Munich.

18 July 2023

Hitler in Landsberg

Adolf Hitler in the Landsberg Prison in 1924. It is best known as the prison where Adolf Hitler was held after the failed Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, and where he dictated his memoirs ‘Mein Kampf’ to Rudolf Hess.

17 July 2023

Hitler in Fröttmanning

Adolf Hitler in conversation with Victoria Melita of Russia in Fröttmanning on 15 April 1923. While in Germany, Victoria showed an interest in the Nazi Party, which appealed to her because of its anti-Bolshevik stance and her hope that the movement might help restore the Russian monarchy. She attended a Nazi rally in Coburg in 1922. She was likely unaware of the most sinister aspects of the Nazi Party.

16 July 2023

Hitler in 1923

Portrait of Adolf Hitler taken in 1923. I just started working on a new post for July 29th, as it was on July 29, 1921 that Adolf Hitler was introduced as Führer of the Nazi Party, marking the first time that title was publicly used to address him. I’m hoping to track down more of these early 1920’s photographs over the next couple of weeks for my post.

15 July 2023

Hitler in 1921

Portrait of Adolf Hitler taken in 1921. I just started putting together a new post for July 29th, as it was on July 29, 1921 that Adolf Hitler was introduced as Führer of the Nazi Party, marking the first time that title was publicly used to address him. I’m hoping to track down more early 1920’s photographs over the next 2 weeks…

14 July 2023

Hitler in 1923

I just wanted to share this beautiful colorization of a photo (one of my personal favorites) that was taken in the Fall of 1923.

13 July 2023

Hitler & Chamberlain

This photograph of the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was taken following the Munich Conference talks, which took place earlier in the day at the Fuhrerbau, at Hitler’s apartment at Prinzregentenplatz 16 in Munich on 30 September 1938.

12 July 2023

Hitler & Hess

Chancellor of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler with his secretary Rudolf Hess on the Obersalzberg in 1932.

11 July 2023

Hitler in Hattingen

Adolf Hitler during a visit to Hattingen in 1926, in the early days of the Nazi movement in the Ruhr area, where Hitler first met Joseph Goebbels and the later SA chief Viktor Lutze.

10 July 2023

Hitler at the Munich Airport

Adolf Hitler in Munich’s airport (Oberwiesenfeld) during the electoral campaign with his pilot Hans Baur, adjutants Julius Schaub and Wilhelm Brückner, and Hermann Esser in October 1932.

9 July 2023

Dortmund SA Rally 1933

This is another photo taken at the Dortmund SA Rally that occurred on 9 July 1933, and is featured on today’s post along with a complete set of 4 other postcards and several collectible cigarette cards!

8 July 2023

Dortmund SA Rally 1933

This is a remarkable photograph that I only just recently added to my collection. I discovered it while doing research for last week’s Ernst Roehm post. This was taken at the Dortmund SA rally that occurred on 9 July 1933, and it was later featured as a full page photo in ‘Das Ehrenbuch der SA’, a 1934 publication documenting the “milestones” in SA history from the early 1920s to the year 1933. As this rally occurred exactly 90 years ago tomorrow, I will also plan to highlight another photo from this event.

7 July 2023

Hitler at the Bechstein Villa

This is a photograph of senior Nazi party figures taken in the dining room of Helene Bechstein’s Berchtesgaden Villa in 1929. Standing, left to right: Rudolf Hess, Martin Mutschmann, Heinrich Himmler. Seated, left to right: Joseph Goebbels, (woman unknown), Adolf Hitler. The Bechsteins both publicly funded Hitler and gave him the funds to continue publishing the  Völkischer Beobachter.

6 July 2023

Propaganda postcard code #H.789

This was a common, highly circulated postcard published by Foto Hoffmann of Munich after the 1933 Reichsparteitag in Nuremberg showing Adolf Hitler giving a speech to the Hitler Youth. Find out how this particular photograph became part of a British High Command special operations propaganda campaign in 1944… read more (NSFW)

(I have also have made a highly entertaining but **NSFW** version of this page called “Fabulous Führer Fotos” that features some really obscure stories and propaganda materials that might not be suitable for a more general audience (or if you’re literally at work 🤭), but are also extremely interesting historical facts (and perhaps some conjecture, with a bunch of my own amusing musings thrown in just for fun 😂). Just trust me it’s well worth a peek! 🫣

5 July 2023

BDM Girls visit Hitler

This is a photo of Adolf Hitler receiving a visit from a group of smitten BDM girls at the Berghof. The BDM originated in the late 1920s, and was first called the Sisterhood of the Hitler Youth (Mädchenschaften or Mädchengruppen, aka Schwesternschaften der Hitler-Jugend).

4 July 2023

Picnic Time 🍽

Hitler loved to go out on picnics with his friends up in the mountains, it was well known as one of his greatest pleasures. and a way for him to get away from the stress and pressure of Berlin politics.