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Hitler at home: Rare photographs show how the Nazi leader relaxed while he waged war
Daily Mail ^ | 25th September 2010

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: hitler; nazi; worldwarii
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2 posted on 09/25/2010 7:35:40 PM PDT by Bean Counter (Now what kind of a geroo are you anyway?)
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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.


3 posted on 09/25/2010 7:35:43 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: nickcarraway

H! was regular guy, just like Imam Zer0.


4 posted on 09/25/2010 7:36:26 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Bean Counter

I figured he played a lot of golf and went out for ice cream.


5 posted on 09/25/2010 7:37:35 PM PDT by counterpunch (Life in Prison: The RINO compromise to "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death")
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To: nickcarraway

It’s springtime ...for Hitler...and Germaneeee....
Winter...for Poland...and Fraaaance....

Strange, that movie was just on TV earlier tonight.


6 posted on 09/25/2010 7:38:42 PM PDT by AndrewB (FUBO)
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To: metmom

Maybe she told him it was unsat to wear his cover indoors.


7 posted on 09/25/2010 7:40:08 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: Bean Counter

Girl’s head looks Photoshopped onto her body.


8 posted on 09/25/2010 7:40:45 PM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop Barry now. He can't help himself.)
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To: nickcarraway

Wonder what happened to the birthday VW?
Now that would be a heckava collectors item!


9 posted on 09/25/2010 7:41:31 PM PDT by ozark hilljilly
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To: counterpunch

One wonders if the bunker under the White House is a comfy hangout like Hitler’s was...


10 posted on 09/25/2010 7:42:07 PM PDT by BocoLoco
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To: Bean Counter

Is that a photo-shopped pic of ‘Nazi-Nancy’?


11 posted on 09/25/2010 7:42:37 PM PDT by LibFreeUSA (Show me what Obama brought that was new and there you will find things only radical and destructive.)
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To: nickcarraway

What, nothing about kissing babies, tee hee.


12 posted on 09/25/2010 7:43:38 PM PDT by Ciexyz
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To: nickcarraway

That guy was nuttier than a fruitcake — and fruitier than a nutcake.


14 posted on 09/25/2010 7:44:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both.)
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One wonders if the bunker under the White House is a comfy hangout like Hitler’s was...


15 posted on 09/25/2010 7:44:44 PM PDT by BocoLoco
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“Girl’s head looks Photoshopped onto her body.”

That’s because the girl was Helen Thomas and they had to do something...


16 posted on 09/25/2010 7:46:07 PM PDT by Soothesayer (“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license...")
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To: Bean Counter

2nd pic, just to right of Der Fuhrer: Is that a young girl?


17 posted on 09/25/2010 7:46:25 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Mexico is the U.S. version of Hamas)
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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.

18 posted on 09/25/2010 7:48:00 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Things will change after the revolution, but not before.)
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To: rabidralph
"Hitler is surrounded by an enthralled group of Austrian schoolgirls in 1939. Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn in Austria-Hungary in 1889"

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?

19 posted on 09/25/2010 7:48:07 PM PDT by devane617 (November!)
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the banality of evil


20 posted on 09/25/2010 7:49:09 PM PDT by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Reqiescat in Pace)
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