Posted on 05/28/2016 8:51:46 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch
Hugo Jaeger is the former personal photographer of Adolf Hitler. He travelled with Hitler in the years leading up to and throughout World War II and took around 2,000 color photographs of the Austrian-born German politician. Jaeger was one of the few photographers who were using color photography techniques at the time.
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Just looking at pictures of the guy, I just don’t get what was so compelling to the Germans of that era. He was an awkward-looking, peculiar man.
Thanks for sharing, seeing evil in color is a great reminder that this chaos happened not so long ago.
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I agree. I think Lewis’s essays on the banality of evil express it the best. The reality of evil for most people wasn’t the SS knocking down the door; it was the petty bureaucrat who kept the trains running, and the manufacturer who cared more for his business than his soul.
The most frightening thing about being stationed in Germany was understanding just the absurdity of “it could never happen here.” You could wander the streets and talk to the few survivors, but you could never escape that niggling feeling that most were just like us and that alone was very unsettling.
Hitler had charisma and was a spell-binding orator.
As someone able to move the crowds, his powers of persuasion remain unsurpassed among modern politicians.
He told Germans what they wanted to hear and his vow to end the humiliation of Versailles made him attractive to Germans.
Without the gifts I mentioned, he never would have become famous let alone dictator of Germany.
These photos have been around for 75 years. Why are they being brought up now? There is a reason for everything. This is being done to keep the Nazi thing going during the U.S. presidential election. The dims are doing this.
Usually a charismatic individual will look at least somewhat the part in photos, but when I see photos of Hitler, I see an awkward, even nerdy-looking man. It’s always astounded me.
You can see it in the photo of the women surrounding Hitler.
Their reaction reminded me of people who are in the presence of the Messiah.
William Shirer had a similar reaction. Hitler made normal people take leave of their senses.
You had the feeling you were in the presence of someone of extraordinary stature.
Most Germans weren't able to see him up close, but they could hear him on the radio. Hitler's effective use of radio for propaganda prompted Sisley Huddleston, in his book Popular Diplomacy and War (Rindge, NH: R. R. Smith, 1954) to call Hitler the real inventor of radio.
Propaganda. Goebbels was a genius who had a large part in creating Hitler. His creation was theater on a large scale. Add to the aforementioned Hitler’s speaking ability coupled with the German propensity to follow.
This is the Hitler Myth personified.
People just adored him and the popular enthusiasm for the Nazi warlord among Germans was genuine.
Amazing collection. Thanks for sharing the link.
Amazing.
This is nothing new. They published these color photos in Life Magazine in 1970.
Life Magazine Apr 24, 1970 - The Private World of Hitler
https://books.google.com/books?id=mVUEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA45#v=onepage&q&f=false
I would imagine most of those photograhed perished by 1945. To please the ambitions of one man.
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I respectfully disagree. Hitler was a product of his time and place. Improbable events led to his climb to power, and he adopted policies that maintained or increased his power as events developed.
Rare =/= unknown.
Same s__t...different a_hole.
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