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Hitler in Essen
This album of photographs includes pictures from the Gautag of Gau Essen that took place exactly 91 years ago on 30 October 1932. Adolf Hitler also spoke at the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund on this day as part of the 1932 election campaign. There are also photos from Josef Terboven‘s wedding, the Gauleiter of Essen, and read more
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Hitler and Goebbels
When I checked Reichblr this morning I discovered that today would be Joseph Goebbels’ 126th birthday. So I decided to go through my photo collection and pull out some of my favorite pics of Goebbels with Hitler. Goebbels was born on 29 October 1897 in Rheydt, Germany and died on 1 May 1945, one day read more
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Hitler at Landsberg Prison
This is an album of photographs from Adolf Hitler’s visit to Landsberg fortress on the 8th of October in 1934. Hitler was imprisoned for nine months at Landsberg for his part in the failed Beer Hall Putsch in Munich on 9 November 1923. The prison continued to function as a penal facility after Adolf Hitler’s read more
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Adolf Hitler: Bilder Aus Dem Leben Des Führers
Heinrich Hoffmann published this cigarette card photo book on Adolf Hitler titled “Bilder aus dem Leben des Führers” (Pictures from the Life of the Führer) in 1936. These books were sold as a blank album and the owner would purchase the 200 photographs separately and manually paste them in to complete the album. Over 2 read more
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Hitler and the Autobahn
It was 90 years ago today that Adolf Hitler himself picked up a shovel and broke ground for the construction of the Reichsautobahn highway system on 23 September 1933. By the end of the following year construction had begun in eleven major corridors across Germany. When Hitler came to power in 1933, he wanted to read more
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Hoffmann & Hitler
Heinrich Hoffmann was born 138 years ago today on 12 September 1885 in Fürth, a large provincial city located to the north-west of Nürnberg. He was the only child of well established photographer Robert Hoffmann, who later joined a successful portrait studio in Regensburg with his brother, also named Heinrich. As a teenager Hoffmann was 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 