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Adolf Hitler Koog
Eighty-nine years ago today Adolf Hitler inaugurated an ambitious project that entailed reclaiming land from the North Sea to obtain Lebensraum for Aryan families. This new community was called the Adolf Hitler Koog (now Dieksanderkoog, located 62 miles north-west of Hamburg), and the centerpiece was a grand hall. The koog was intended to be a place where the read more
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Hitler at Oberammergau
Adolf Hitler attended the world famous Passion Play in the town of Oberammergau on 13 August 1934. This series of pictures shows the leader of Nazi Germany and his entourage visiting the small Bavarian village and attending the production about the life of Jesus. The grand spectacle, held only once a decade, recounts the story read more
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Hitler at the Summer Olympics 🤸♂️
On 1 August 1936 the Games of the 11th Olympiad opened in Berlin, just six months after the success of the Winter Olympics hosted in Garmish-Partenkirchen. Adolf Hitler greatly admired classical images of Greek gods and goddesses, and regarded Greco-Roman civilization as providing the seeds of Germanic culture. The Olympics were viewed as a means read more
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Hitler in Paris
Adolf Hitler’s only visit to Paris occurred on 23 June 1940. Architects Albert Speer and Hermann Giesler accompanied him, along with his favorite sculptor Arno Breker. The delegation arrived very early on a Sunday morning aboard the Führer’s private Junkers Ju 52 plane at Le Bourget airport at 6 a.m., after setting off from Hitler’s headquarters read more
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Hitler in Finland 🇫🇮
Adolf Hitler paid a spontaneous visit to Finland on 4 June 1942 in order to congratulate Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish Defense Forces, on his 75th birthday. Notice of his last-minute guest had been delivered just the day before, and Mannerheim did not want to meet Hitler in his headquarters in read more
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Hitler at the Movies 🎥
Adolf Hitler was a dedicated movie fanatic, having a taste for everything from cartoons to comedies and even indulging in an eclectic array of foreign films produced in America, France and Great Britain. Once coming to power in 1933 until the outbreak of WW2, he watched two or sometimes three films every evening in his 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.
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Heinrich Hoffmann Photo Gallery 