Heinrich Hoffmann Photo Gallery

Adolf Hitler was the first modern politician to use airplanes for his travel and campaigning. Starting with his election campaigns in the late 1920s, he set a standard by using planes in an era when air travel was still a novelty. During the 1932 presidential campaign the Nazi party organized mass rallies throughout every corner… read more

Heinrich Hoffmann’s book “Hitler abseits vom Alltag” (Hitler Away From Everyday Life) was published in 1937 and features 100 photos about the private life of Adolf Hitler. The photographs show Hitler mostly in private settings, including at his home the Berghof, meetings with Nazi officials, workers, admirers, children, traveling, relaxing at a picnic, giving autographs,… read more

The Führersonderzug (“Führer’s special train”) was Adolf Hitler’s personal armored train that was completed in several stages in the late 1930’s and named “Amerika” upon it’s final completion in August 1939. It was later renamed the “Brandenburg” once Hitler reduced the use of his train primarily for meetings, serving as a Führerhauptquartier (mobile headquarters) up until the Balkans… read more

Adolf Hitler’s 50th birthday on April 20, 1939 was his first one to be celebrated after the government of Nazi Germany declared that the Führer’s birthday was to become an official national holiday. Festivities took place in all municipalities throughout the country just as they had since 1933 and would continue until 1945. The events… read more

The area around Berchtesgaden and the Obersalzberg on the Austrian border was by far Adolf Hitler’s favorite travel destination. So much so that this is where he constructed a third home outside of his Munich and Berlin residences and created a second outpost of the Reich Chancellery. He had first vacationed in the area beginning… read more

The photos below are from two different portrait sessions that took place in Adolf Hitler’s study at his mountain retreat the Berghof, located on a the 3,200-foot high mountain ridge northeast of Berchtesgaden. The first set was taken on 18 August 1936, very shortly after construction was completed to the expansion of Haus Wachenfeld, when… read more