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Hitler Runs For President
On 4 April 1932 Adolf Hitler began Round 2 of his campaign for Reich President. After the first round of voting in the 1932 German presidential elections concluded on March 13th, Hindenburg had failed to receive an absolute majority. He came up 170,000 votes short despite the 18.65 million votes that were cast for him,… read more
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Hitler in Memel
On 23 March 1939, Adolf Hitler arrived in Klaipėda (Memel), a port city on the Baltic Sea, on the cruiser Deutschland to personally tour the city and deliver a speech after Germany demanded its return from Lithuania. A part of East Prussia since the 16th century, Memel and its environs were removed from Germany in 1919… read more
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Hitler and the Saarland
Ninety years ago today liberation celebrations were held on 1 March 1935 in Saarbrücken for the reintegration of the Saarland into the German Reich. The Treaty of Versailles had put the Saar under the control of the League of Nations for 15 years. During these years, the region was administered by the League – first… read more
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Hitler and Winterhilfswerk
Adolf Hitler ordered the establishment of the Winterhilfswerk (WHW) relief program in 1933 and personally opened the first drive that September, giving out the directive that “no one shall be hungry, no one shall freeze”. The initial donation drive of winter 1933/1934 took place against a backdrop of acute distress in large parts of the… read more
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Hitler at Siemens 🏭
“I’m not interested in the intellectual, I’m interested in the German people….” On 10 November 1933, Adolf Hitler delivered a speech at the Siemens Dynamo factory in Berlin at the Siemensstadt locality. Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda, delivered an opening address before he introduced Hitler’s speech that extolled the virtues of German workers that… read more
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Hitler in Brunswick
On 18 October 1931, exactly one week after the conclusion of the Harzburg Front conference, Hitler staged his own rally in Braunschweig (Brunswick). Thirty-eight special trains and over five-thousand trucks brought a total of 104,000 Sturmabteilung (SA) and Schutzstaffel (SS) men from all over Germany. They participated in a massive six-hour march-past in review before… 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 