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Hitler in White Uniform Set #2
Time flies! It’s quite hard for me to believe, but I launched this blog exactly one year ago today. What a journey it has been, creating a total of 60 unique photo albums with over 2000 individual Adolf Hitler photographs successfully identified, labeled, grouped and catalogued. On the outside, as far as blog statistics go,… read more
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Hitler and the Anschluss
On 12 March 1938, German troops crossed into Austria at 2.30 a.m. in Braunau, the city of Adolf Hitler’s birth, located along the southern border of the German Empire. Around midday, Goebbels read out a proclamation from Hitler on the radio. Before leaving Berlin, Hitler appointed Hermann Göring as his deputy in the event of… read more
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Hitler at the Berlin Motor Show
On 11 February 1933, Adolf Hitler officially opened the 23rd annual International Motor Show (IAA) in Berlin. Having become chancellor only 12 days prior, he decided to use one of his first major public speeches after coming to power to promote the German automobile industry. Hitler announced massive tax benefits to car owners, declared his… read more
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Hitler at the Winter Olympics
It was 88 years ago today, on 6 February 1936 that the fourth edition of the Winter Olympic Games returned to the Alps, this time in the Bavarian city of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Held in the shadow of the Zugspitz, the highest peak in the German Alps, 755 athletes from 28 countries competed in 17 competitions. Joseph… read more
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Hitler’s Victory in Lippe
“Everything now depends on Lippe.” -Joseph Goebbels, Reich Propaganda Director of the NSDAP, diary entry on 13 January 1933. The former state of Lippe, a region of North Rhine-Westphalia, was the focus of an intense election campaign that occurred in early January of 1933. By the time Adolf Hitler and the National Socialists had come… read more
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Hitler and Göring
Hermann Wilhelm Göring was born 131 years ago today on 12 January 1893 in Rosenheim Germany. Göring joined the NSDAP in October 1922, shortly after hearing a speech given by Adolf Hitler in Munich. Following the establishment of the Nazi state, Göring amassed power and political capital to become the second most powerful man in… 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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