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Unseen photographs reveal the private life of Adolf Hitler
UK Telegraph (photo collection of Hugo Jaeger) ^

Posted on 01/27/2012 6:16:47 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

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. 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.

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


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KEYWORDS: hitler; hitlerphotos; jaeger; photographs; ww2
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To: Repeal The 17th

Those aren’t German troops. It’s a march by by the Sturmabteilung, the SA, or Brownshirts. The guy in front of Hitler closest to the camera is Pffer von Saloman, one time Chief of the SA. The partially hidden guy behind him [in SA uniform] is Hermann Goering.


41 posted on 01/27/2012 8:41:51 PM PST by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: docbnj

Based on everything I’ve read, that is my understanding, too.


42 posted on 01/27/2012 8:44:12 PM PST by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: yarddog

Didn’t take them long to get a picture of Uncle Joe up.


43 posted on 01/27/2012 8:44:51 PM PST by eddie willers
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To: yarddog
Photobucket This is Daddy's best friend William Welch, with two Russian Wacs, We got a Christmas card from Welch maybe four years ago and he said he was in poor health and going blind. Daddy was also in poor health. I suspect both died before they were able to send another card which they had done so since the end of the war.
44 posted on 01/27/2012 8:45:39 PM PST by yarddog
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To: Texas Fossil
There is a problem with the opposite approach; that is, demonizing a human.

The never-ending demonization of Hitler (e.g.) tends to forestall thinking about the man and his beliefs, motivations, and policies. It's too easy to say, "well the man was just a demon from Hell" and let it go at that.

A less impassioned view, while not denying all the evil that the man did, might be more instructive to people who would otherwise dismiss any true analyisis of the man and his movement, and thus miss an opportunity to see the context in which he acted, and the lessons for our own time.

Of course, people on FR almost universally understand and acknowledge all the evil the man loosed upon the world. But it helps to look beyond that as well, to see the chilling lessons for the present day.

And, of course, to do that, we need to seek an exemption to Godwin's Law.

≤}B^)

45 posted on 01/27/2012 8:47:41 PM PST by Erasmus (A man, a plan, a canal: Suez)
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To: eddie willers
Photobucket This is American troops marching around the track in the Olympic stadium, where the 1936 Olympics were held.
46 posted on 01/27/2012 8:51:28 PM PST by yarddog
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To: ConservativeStatement
Photobucket This is from the Potsdam conference where Truman gave up all of Eastern Europe. My Father's outfit got passes to attend the conference. They were already bivouacked off the Pottsdamer Strasse.
47 posted on 01/27/2012 8:56:32 PM PST by yarddog
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To: Erasmus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

“Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies is a humorous observation made by Mike Godwin in 1990”

There is nothing analogous about Hitler being Hitler or Hitler being a Nazi.

It was/is not my place to judge him, but I am sure God has.

"The book" states there is a Hell and that is where dead evil men reside. I will leave it at that.

48 posted on 01/27/2012 9:03:18 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: yarddog

The Yalta Accord was the single largest black mark against the U.S. left at the end of WWII..


49 posted on 01/27/2012 9:07:20 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Hugo Jaeger’s color stills have been out for several years now, I presume these are previously unpublished?


50 posted on 01/27/2012 9:08:43 PM PST by wolficatZ (:"TV is king, you're my everything..")
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To: yarddog

I wonder if that guy caught heck for standing in front of Stalin’s name?


51 posted on 01/27/2012 9:09:22 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Good find.


52 posted on 01/27/2012 9:25:39 PM PST by WilliamEaton
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To: PzLdr

“The partially hidden guy behind him [in SA uniform] is Hermann Goering.”

One can also see Rudolph Hess third to the left from Goering..


53 posted on 01/27/2012 9:32:42 PM PST by wolficatZ (:"TV is king, you're my everything..")
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To: wolficatZ

It seems some were released in 2009 from what I can gather, maybe not all. Another from the UK Daily Mail from a few days ago: “The Fuehrer and his Frauleins: Extraordinary colour photographs emerge of Nazi leader celebrating his 50th birthday (with lots of brunettes)”

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2085509/Hitler-schoolgirls-Colour-photos-emerge-Nazi-leader-celebrating-50th-birthday.html#ixzz1kjAvVTYz


54 posted on 01/27/2012 9:38:30 PM PST by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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To: ConservativeStatement

I think some of those photos have been in circulation for some time.


55 posted on 01/27/2012 10:05:36 PM PST by 4buttons
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To: Texas Fossil

My sardonic reference to Godwin’s Law was a little elliptic, I confess.

I was merely trying to imply that possible parallels one might to draw between the Nazi Era, and its leader, to our present circumstance, would be a nominal violation of the law, for which we may need to seek a dispensation.

In fact, for about two years on this forum, I have been suggesting its repeal, since these troubled times make it, IMHO, counterproductive.


56 posted on 01/27/2012 11:19:49 PM PST by Erasmus (A man, a plan, a canal: Suez)
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To: yarddog
This is Daddy's best friend William Welch, with two Russian Wacs

I wonder what ever happened to the two Russian ladies.

57 posted on 01/27/2012 11:29:33 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: ConservativeStatement

BUMP for later read


58 posted on 01/28/2012 3:12:16 AM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Repeal The 17th

You know, I thought the photos looked familiar.


59 posted on 01/28/2012 6:46:45 AM PST by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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To: yarddog

So this picture is taken from the right bank, the east side, of the Rhine, correct?


60 posted on 01/28/2012 6:52:35 AM PST by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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