Heinrich Hoffmann Photo Gallery

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 *** 📸

  • Hitler in Gray Suit

    Hitler in Gray Suit

    More often than not, Adolf Hitler was photographed wearing his brown SA uniform or field gray uniform jacket with black trousers. When he was wearing civilian clothes, he usually donned a simple black or dark blue suit (and I must admit I’ve always been quite biased towards Hitler in dark colored suits), but this is… read more

  • Hitler and the NSDAP

    Hitler and the NSDAP

    “We need a fellow at the head who can stand the sound of a machine gun. The rabble need to get fear into their pants. We can’t use an officer, because the people don’t respect them any more. The best would be a worker who knows how to talk… He must be a bachelor, then… read more

  • Dortmund SA Rally 1933

    Dortmund SA Rally 1933

    Exactly 90 years ago today the largest assembly of SA Stormtroopers ever to be mustered occurred in Dortmund Germany at the SA Westfalen Treffen (SA Westphalia meeting). By the end of the summer of 1933, the Sturmabteilung had become the largest paramilitary branch of the NSDAP, consisting of close to 3 million men. During the short… read more

  • Hitler and Ernst Röhm

    Hitler and Ernst Röhm

    It was 89 years ago today that Adolf Hitler launched his Night of the Long Knives, purging the SA and ordering the execution of his close friend Ernst Röhm. Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler, jealous of Hitler’s close relationship with the SA leader, had used the Gestapo and the SS to create false evidence of… read more

  • ‘Handsome Adolf’

    ‘Handsome Adolf’

    “Hitler’s tall and handsome figure, the lock of dark hair that waves coquettishly over his brow and his neatly clipped mustache brought sighs from thousands of women of the middle class who called him “der schoene Adolf (handsome Adolf)” and “unser Adolf (our Adolf)” in tones of rapturous admiration.” – “The Pittsburgh Press” Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania… read more

  • ‘Jugend um Hitler’

    ‘Jugend um Hitler’

    This 1934 Heinrich Hoffmann photo book titled Jugend um Hitler (Youth Around Hitler) is a 96 page piece of Nazi propaganda depicting Adolf Hitler as a kind-hearted, child loving father figure. The 120 photographs depict the close relationship of the Chancellor of Nazi Germany with children. Hitler is shown hugging kids, giving autographs, holding children’s hands, drying… read more