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“Here's Adolf Hitler in a series of bizarre photographs which he kept hidden from the world... They have now been published in this memoir.”—Daily Express Heinrich Hoffman was a key part in the making of the Hitler legend, the photographer who carefully crafted the image of the Fuhrer as a godlike figure. Hoffmann published his first book of photographs in 1919, following his work as an official photographer for the German army. In 1920 he joined the Nazi Party, and his association with Hitler began. He became Hitler's official photographer and traveled with him extensively. He took over two million photographs of Hitler, and they were distributed widely, including on postage stamps, an enterprise that proved very profitable for both men. Hoffmann published several books on Hitler in the 1930s, including The Hitler Nobody Knows (1933). Hoffmann and Hitler were very close, and he acted not only as a personal confidante—his memoirs include rare details of the Fuhrer—but also as a matchmaker; it is Hoffmann who introduced Eva Braun, his studio assistant, to Hitler. At the end of the war, Hoffmann was arrested by the US military, who also seized his photographic archive, and was senten
- Author
- Heinrich Hoffmann; R H Stevens, (Translator)
- Publisher
- Barnsley, S. Yorkshire: Frontline Books
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781783030682
- Subjects
- Memoir, Photography, History
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (196 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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