Adolf Hitler photo discovered

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Adolf Hitler photo discovered

Adolf Hitler photo discovered

An official photograph of Adolf Hitler, believed to have been captured by his personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann, has turned up at a house in Cleethorpes, UK.

The print appears to show the official 'Hoffmann' stamp on the back and belonged to Frank Priest from Lincolnshire who died in 1978.

Frank served in the Navy during the Second World War during which time he was sent to a prisoner of war camp in Italy.

'How he came across it I don't know,' said Frank's son Ian who told us that he is now on a mission to find out more.

The b&w print appears to have been folded, perhaps to carry in a jacket pocket on Frank's return home.

Speaking to Amateur Photographer magazine last night Ian said: 'It was only when we were clearing the house of things that we came across it. Nobody knew about it until we started clearing the room out. It was in a filing cabinet with all my Dad's photos of the boats from the war. I would love to know more about it.'

Ian said that his father never spoke about the picture.

Hitler's official photographer Heinrich Hoffmann was arrested after the war and sentenced to prison as a Nazi 'profiteer'. He died in Munich in December 1957.

The latest Hitler discovery comes just days after photographs of Hitler captured by a British secret agent were revealed for the first time (see this week's AP).

Pictures: Supplied courtesy of Ian Priest

 

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Hitler is celebrating his 50th birthday party on April 20th 1939.

Rare colour photograph of Hitler's birthday

More than 62 years after his death in a Berlin bunker, images from a newly opened Paris archive show him relaxing with children in the Eagle’s Nest, his mountain top chalet in the Alps near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria.

While the dictator does not look in the best of physical health and appears to stoop slightly, the shiny-faced Ayran boys and girls are immaculately dressed in bright pastel colours.

All were likely to have been the sons and daughters of Nazi party dignitaries.

Hitler never had any children of his own, but liked spending time with other people's - forever enthusing about how important they were to the biological future of the 1000 year Reich.

His chief propaganda minister Josef Goebbels’ six children were one of his surrogate families, as were the sons and daughters of his architect Albert Speer.

Other pictures show Hitler out of uniform, reclining in a pin-striped grey suit and looking over the Bavarian valleys while wearing a Homburg hat.

With him in the latter colour portrait is Eva Braun, his loyal girlfriend who was with him throughout the war years right up until the pair took cyanide capsules as Russian forces approached. Also featured in the colour photographs is Hitler’s beloved German Shepherd Dog, Blondie, who also remained with his master until the final hour.

The more official looking photographs in the archive show an early rally of the SA - or “Storm department"- the brown shirted mobsters who assisted Hitler’s rise to power in the 1930s. Its leader Ernst Rohm - once a close ally of Hitler - was later murdered by the SS.

All of the pictures have been released by the Rue des Archives picture agency which was founded in the French capital in 1936 - four years before Nazi forces occupied Paris.

Hitler was one of the most photographed people in the world during the 30s and 40s, and took a close personal interest in all the images produced by his personal photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann.

However, Hoffman was not used to using colour, meaning that the Paris batch of photographs is likely to be the work of Hugo Jaeger, who specialised in what was a relatively new technique at the time.

 

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The work of Hitler's lensman is published at last

The memoirs of Adolf Hitler's official photographer have finally been published.

Heinrich Hoffmann built his fortune in royalties collected from his images of the German leader, whom he portrayed in moments of public and private life. His work helped spread the myth of the Fuhrer, who was the most photographed person in history prior to Princess Diana.

The memoirs narrated in The Hitler Picture derive from a series of interviews Hoffmann gave to Joe Heydecker, a fellow journalist and Warsaw Ghetto survivor. Prior to his death 10 years ago, Heydecker forbade publication of the conversations.

The bulk of Hoffmann's archive was seized by the occupying US Army, and the photographer died in poverty in Munich in 1957. The volume is expected to be released in English later this year.

 

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Unseen Adolf Hitler photographs published

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A set of photographs showing the private side of Adolf Hitler have been published for the first time

The colour pictures come from the collection of Hugo Jaeger, Hitler's personal photographer, who captured him on camera him from 1936 to the final days of his rule in 1945.

They include a glimpse inside Berghof, his mountaintop estate in Bavaria, and his private apartments in Berlin.

There are also scenes from parties,
copies of some of his watercolours and a new image of him at Munich with Neville Chamberlain.

One striking shot shows him staring into the distance surrounded by his advisers at a candlelit Christmas dinner in 1941.

Another captures him waving out of the window of a cruise ship in 1939 while the collection also looks at his wider life, with images of his schoolfriends.

The collection, sold by Jaeger to Life magazine in 1965, was almost seized by American troops in 1945.

Jaeger hid thousands of transparencies in a leather suitcase at the end of the war.

The case was found by six US soldiers as they searched a house near Munich where he was staying but they were more interested in a bottle of cognac he had also slipped inside.

Jaeger later buried the photographs in glass jars before eventually passing them on to the magazine.

Previously unseen pictures from the collection are being published online at LIFE.com to coincide with the 65th anniversary of D-Day.[/QUOT
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