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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
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Hitler and May Day
In April 1933, the recently installed Nazi government declared 1 May the “Day of National Work”, an official state holiday, something the Weimar government before it had never done. Hitler’s new government stripped the holiday of its former class struggle and Marxist associations and integrated it into the fascist ideology of the Third Reich. Any… read more
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Hitler and Hess
Rudolf Hess was born 130 years ago today, in Alexandria, Egypt on 26 April 1894 and moved to Germany when he was fourteen. On 1 July 1920, Hess joined the newly created Nazi party after hearing Adolf Hitler speak at a beer hall in Munich. He became the party’s 16th member. When he met Hitler, he… read more
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Hitler’s Birthday 🎂
Adolf Hitler was born 135 years ago today, on 20 April 1889, in Braunau am Inn, Austria. A year ago on this date I posted an article specifically highlighting events from Hitler’s 50th birthday. This year let’s take a look at how this momentous occasion came to be celebrated annually across Germany both publicly and… 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 