Posted on 09/25/2010 7:31:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Relaxing with a cup of tea and sharing a joke with a crowd of admiring women - these are the rarely seen intimate portraits of Adolf Hitler at the height of his power.
The snapshots of the dictator were taken between 1936 and 1945 as the Nazi party strengthened its grip on Germany and then waged war against its European neighbours.
In one series of pictures from 1939, Hitler is shown admiring his 50th birthday present - a specially designed convertible VW, which was given to him by Ferdinand Porsche.
He received the glossy black automobile at his Eagle's Nest home in the Alps. The mountain-based chalet was built as a retreat for Hitler and a place for him to entertain visiting dignitaries.
In another set Hitler is seen laughing at a Christmas party in 1941. By this point over 43,000 British civilians had been killed in German bombing raids. The photographs were taken by Hugo Jaeger, who had privileged access to the Fuhrer during those tumultuous years. Jaeger was one of the early adopters of colour photography and created clear, evocative images. Unlike the Nazi leader's main photographer Heinrich Hoffmann, Jaeger took pictures both of both private events and huge propaganda spectacles.
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He doesn’t look very relaxed to me. His body language says he doesn’t want to be there and with her.
H! was regular guy, just like Imam Zer0.
I figured he played a lot of golf and went out for ice cream.
It’s springtime ...for Hitler...and Germaneeee....
Winter...for Poland...and Fraaaance....
Strange, that movie was just on TV earlier tonight.
Maybe she told him it was unsat to wear his cover indoors.
Girl’s head looks Photoshopped onto her body.
Wonder what happened to the birthday VW?
Now that would be a heckava collectors item!
One wonders if the bunker under the White House is a comfy hangout like Hitler’s was...
Is that a photo-shopped pic of ‘Nazi-Nancy’?
What, nothing about kissing babies, tee hee.
That guy was nuttier than a fruitcake — and fruitier than a nutcake.
One wonders if the bunker under the White House is a comfy hangout like Hitler’s was...
“Girl’s head looks Photoshopped onto her body.”
That’s because the girl was Helen Thomas and they had to do something...
2nd pic, just to right of Der Fuhrer: Is that a young girl?
Check out the liveried footman in the background. How many nations had someone like that in the 1930's? Socialist Workers Party! Fah! Socialists just want to be the new nobility, with all the lousy workers just being servants of the state.
These exact words were could have been used in 2008....Kind of spooky if you think about it. Wonder what will happen between now and November?
the banality of evil
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