Posted on 06/04/2009 10:04:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
It's a photo of Adolf Hitler the world has never seen. And there are dozens more.
A full-color shot of the genocidal madman, his brown uniform adorned with blood-red bandanas covered with swaztikas, chillingly shows the hold he had on his murderous Nazi forces.
From a passing car, he gives his men the sickening "Heil Hitler" salute.
That the in-focus photo is in stunning, sharp color - grainy black and white images are nothing new - makes it all the more real that this madman once tried to conquer a continent and exterminate millions of innocents. The picture is one of dozens never-published images taken by Hitler's personal photographer and now online at LIFE.com. Four online galleries show the Fuhrer and his closest advisors at small gatherings, public events and in private moments between 1936 and 1945. Photographer Hugo Jaeger was granted unparalleled access to Hilter and traveled with him for years in the run up to, and during, the second World War. The images almost never made the light of day. In 1945, when the Allies pushed towards Munich, the photographer found himself face-to-face with six American soldiers and feared he would be arrested when they found the thousands of color negatives he had hidden in a leather suitcase.
Instead, the soldiers threw open the case to discover a bottle of cognac, which they eagerly opened and shared with Jaeger, ignoring the transparencies beneath. To preserve the photos, he buried them in 12 glass jars on the outskirts of Munich, returning over the years to check on them, repack and rebury them.
In 1955, Jaeger finally retrieved all 2,000 transparencies and stored them in a bank vault before selling them to LIFE magazine in 1965.
As the 65th anniversary of D-Day approaches, LIFE.com has decided to publish the snaps, which give a new fascinating - and frightening - look at the life of the man behind the Nazi regime and the Holocaust.
I'm thinking the same way. Who is his Pinochet going to be?
They loved Hitler until he attacked Stalin. Stalin succeeded in separating the "Socialist" from "National Socialism" by labeling them "Fascists" then treating them like they were polar opposites. Stalin's big lie continues to serve the enemies of freedom with this deception.
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He will make us proud of our nation again.
Hate the businessmen (jews). We will take from them and give to our followers.
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Many, many similarities.
Wilson was a “Progressive”. We know that any time the word progressive is used, look out. The left is very clever in their propaganda. The dumbed down sheeple fall for so much of it.
Adolf Hitler: Up Close
Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images | Feb 17, 1939 | Hugo Jaeger
Posted on 06/04/2009 4:05:07 PM PDT by lqcincinnatus
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“In 1941 Kodak started Kodacolor film. I have no idea what Agfa did.”
Kodacolor was color negative film. Kodachrome transparencies date back to 1935. Agfa also marketed color transparency film back in the 1930’s.
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