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.
America now has it’s equivalent of the German-Austrian Tyrrant.
We’ll see how far ours will be allowed to go.
Um, I thought all they had back then was Kodachrome (color positives, aka slides).
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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.
It’s strange to see these in color.
http://www.life.com/image/50715743/in-gallery/27022/adolf-hitler-up-close
There’s was an earlier thread on this.
Calling the infamous Nazi salute “sickening” is odd because it was just a salute [ nothing sickening in that ] which was modeled on the old Roman salute & was even still being used in the USA during the Pledge of Allegiance up until the same time period.
“IF HITLER HAD A TELEPROMPTER, WE WOULD ALL BE SPEAKING GERMAN”.
In 1941 Kodak started Kodacolor film. I have no idea what Agfa did.
http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/24691/wwii-dday-and-operation-overlord
Some timely photos from D-Day operations as well
Jonah Goldberg’s “Liberal Fascism” is really coming back on me like last night’s Szechuan.
I never knew that stuff about Woodrow Wilson, the SOB was just plain scary nutz.
Benito Mussolini, however, comes off as much more of an intellectual than I imagined. Which doesn’t make him right.
As for B.O., I’m thinking of him as the American Allende.
It’s very strange.
FDR’s “Civilian Conservation Corps” uniforms were indistinguishable from the SA’s.
Hitler’s German economic “miracle” was built on the same all-too-familiar sand. It seems he had no choice but to invade and plunder his neighbors as his country’s artificially-pumped economy was months away from abject collapse.
Deliverance?
LOL!
Hitler watches military maneuvers in the spring of 1940:
“The great strength of the totalitarian state,” Hitler once said, “is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.”
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Unfortunately, he got that one right. Hitler/Benito/Stalin/Tojo were clearly seen as Men of Destiny and the wave of the future back in the thirties. He was the beau idol of the “liberals” and “progressives” over here then... much as they have striven to rewrite history.
Wilson closed the NYSE for months. Yes, he was a near dictator by any measure.
Facinating piece of video - what would a man like that find humorous I wonder?
Those photos were excellent and inspiring!
Yes, very strange. Definitely fascinating photos...
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