Hitler in Landsberg prison during a visit from party comrades. 1924

Hitler's parents: Clara and Alois.

Hitler's birth certificate. 1889 Braunau, Austria.

Little Hitler (third from left in the bottom row) with classmates. Fischlham, Austria. 1895

School photograph 1901

1904

Hitler in the crowd at Odeonplatz during the mobilization of the German army during the First World War. Munich, August 2, 1914

Hitler (back row, second from right) in a military hospital. 1918

Volunteer Hitler (right) with the 2nd Bavarian Infantry Regiment of the Bavarian Army during the First World War. 1916

A rising star in German politics. 1921

During the 1923 election campaign.

Hitler in shorts, 1924. “Some photographs of Adolf Hitler look like a buffoon, but they prove that he experimented with his image. Those. Hitler was a very modern politician for his time,” says the preface of the book “Hitler Was My Friend” by Heinrich Hoffmann, who was Hitler’s personal photographer.

"Apocalyptic, visionary, compelling." Staged photo shoot by Heinrich Hoffmann. 1925

The face of Nazism.

Portrait 1932

At the groundbreaking of the new Reichsbank building. May 1932.

Speech at the trial in Leipzig 1933

Hitler visiting his prison cell in Landsberg prison, where he wrote "Mein Kampf" ten years ago. 1934

Hitler and Goebbels signing autographs at the 1936 Olympics

Hitler says goodbye to those present while leaving the New Year's banquet. Berlin, 1936

At someone's wedding.

At Thanksgiving in Bückeburg. 1937

During the construction of the highway.

Speaker

Hitler wears brown Nazi clothing during an outdoor speech in Austria. 1938

At a rehearsal of the Leopoldhall orchestra in Munich. 1938

During a visit to the occupied Sudetenland in the city of Graslitz. 1938

With Austrian fans. 1939

On board the Robert Ley on its maiden voyage.

During lunch on the front line. 1940

Hitler with guests at the table at his residence in Obersalzberg. 1939

At a Christmas banquet with German generals. 1941

"Children's Friend"

Hitler with Emmy and Edda Goering. 1940 Emmy Goering - German actress, second wife of Hermann Goering. Since the then Reich Chancellor and Reich President of Germany Adolf Hitler did not have a wife, Emmy Goering was secretly considered the “first lady” of Germany and in this capacity, along with Magda Goebbels, who tried to play the same role, she led various charitable events.

"Friend of Animals"

Hitler and Eva Braun with their Scottish terriers.

Hitler also had a shepherd, Blondie.

Reading the morning press.

Hitler and Eva Braun. 1943

Hitler, Goering and Guderian discuss the Bulge. October 1944

Hitler visits one of the officers, like himself, who suffered from an unsuccessful attempt on his life on July 20, 1944. After the assassination attempt, Hitler was unable to stand on his feet all day, as more than 100 fragments were removed from his legs. In addition, his right arm was dislocated, the hair on the back of his head was singed and his eardrums were damaged. I became temporarily deaf in my right ear. He ordered the execution of the conspirators to be turned into humiliating torture, filmed and photographed. Subsequently, I personally watched this film.

One of the last photographs of Hitler. The Fuhrer in the garden of the Imperial Chancellery awards young members of the Hitler Youth brigade mobilized to defend Berlin.

Hitler gives Reichsmarschall Goering a painting by Hans Makart “Lady with a Falcon” (1880). Both Hitler and Goering were passionate art collectors: by 1945, Hitler's collection consisted of 6,755 paintings, Goering's collection - 1,375. Paintings were purchased (including at reduced prices with the help of threats) by agents working for Hitler and Goering, and were given as gifts to those close to them. , were confiscated from museums in German-occupied countries. Disputes over the legal status of some paintings from the former collections of Nazi Germany leaders are still ongoing.

According to the official version, Hitler, together with his wife Eva Braun, committed suicide on April 30, having previously killed his beloved dog Blondie. In Russian historiography, the point of view has been established that Hitler took poison (potassium cyanide, like most Nazis who committed suicide), however, according to eyewitnesses, he shot himself. There is also a version according to which Hitler, having taken an ampoule of poison into his mouth and bit into it, simultaneously shot himself with a pistol (thus using both instruments of death).

According to witnesses from among the service personnel, even the day before, Hitler gave the order to deliver cans of gasoline from the garage (to destroy the bodies). On April 30, after lunch, Hitler said goodbye to people from his inner circle and, shaking their hands, together with Eva Braun, retired to his apartment, from where the sound of a shot was soon heard. Shortly after 15:15, Hitler's servant Heinz Linge, accompanied by his adjutant Otto Günsche, Goebbels, Bormann and Axmann, entered the Fuhrer's apartment. Dead Hitler sat on the sofa; a blood stain was spreading on his temple.

Eva Braun lay nearby, with no visible external injuries. Günsche and Linge wrapped Hitler's body in a soldier's blanket and carried it out into the garden of the Reich Chancellery; after him they carried out Eve’s body. The corpses were placed near the entrance to the bunker, doused with gasoline and burned. In the photo: Hitler's burnt corpse during an examination carried out by Soviet specialists.

FBI photo montage made in 1945 in case Hitler tried to hide by changing his appearance.

There are a number of conspiracy theories claiming that Hitler did not commit suicide, but escaped. According to the most popular version, the Fuhrer and Eva Braun, leaving doubles in their place, fled to South America, where they lived happily under false names until a ripe old age. The photo allegedly shows 75-year-old Hitler on his deathbed.

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Hitler in Landsberg prison during a visit from party comrades, including Rudolf Hess. 1924

Hitler's Parents: Clara and Alois

Giler's birth certificate. 1989 Braunau, Austria

Little Hitler (third from left in the bottom row) with classmates. Fischlham, Austria. 1895

School photograph 1901

Hitler in the crowd at Odeonplatz during the mobilization of the German army during the First World War. Munich, August 2, 1914

Volunteer Hitler (right) with the 2nd Bavarian Infantry Regiment of the Bavarian Army during the First World War. 1916

Hitler (back row, second from right) in a military hospital. 1918

A rising star in German politics. 1921

During the 1923 election campaign.

Hitler was released from Landsberg prison, where he wrote Mein Kampf. December 1924

Hitler in shorts, 1924. “Some photographs of Adolf Hitler look like a buffoon, but they prove that he experimented with his image. Those. Hitler was a very modern politician for his time,” says the preface of the book “Hitler Was My Friend” by Heinrich Hoffmann, who was Hitler’s personal photographer.

"Apocalyptic, visionary, compelling." Staged photo shoot by Heinrich Hoffmann. 1925

The face of Nazism.

Portrait 1932

At the groundbreaking of the new Reichsbank building. May 1932

Speech at the trial in Leipzig 1933

Hitler visiting his prison cell in Landsberg prison, where he wrote "Mein Kampf" ten years ago. 1934

At a mass Nazi rally in Bückenburg, 1934.

Hitler and Goebbels signing autographs at the 1936 Olympics

Hitler says goodbye to those present while leaving the New Year's banquet. Berlin, 1936

At someone's wedding

At Thanksgiving in Bückeburg. 1937

During the construction of the highway

Hitler receives a standing ovation in the Reichstag after announcing the “peaceful” annexation of Austria. 1938

Hitler wears brown Nazi clothing during an outdoor speech in Austria. 1938

At a rehearsal of the Leopoldhall orchestra in Munich. 1938

During a visit to the occupied Sudetenland in the city of Graslitz. 1938

At a Nazi rally in Eger, Czechoslovakia. 1938

With Austrian fans. 1939

May Day rally at the stadium in 1939. With Hitler coming to power, May 1 received official status in 1933. The date was called "National Labor Day". A day after the introduction, the Nazis raided the trade union premises and banned them.

At a Nazi rally

At the Charlottenburg Theater. May 1939

On board the Robert Ley on its maiden voyage.

Hitler with guests at the table at his residence in Obersalzberg. 1939

During lunch on the front line. 1940

In Paris. 1940

At a Christmas banquet with German generals. 1941

"Children's Friend"

Hitler with Emmy and Edda Goering. 1940 Emmy Goering - German actress, second wife of Hermann Goering. Since the then Reich Chancellor and Reich President of Germany Adolf Hitler did not have a wife, Emmy Goering was secretly considered the “first lady” of Germany and in this capacity, along with Magda Goebbels, who tried to play the same role, she led various charitable events.

"Friend of Animals"

Hitler and Eva Braun with their Scottish terriers.

Hitler also had a shepherd, Blondie.

Reading the morning press.

Hitler and Eva Braun. 1943

Hitler, Goering and Guderian discuss the Bulge. October 1944

Hitler visits one of the officers, like himself, who suffered from an unsuccessful attempt on his life on July 20, 1944. After the assassination attempt, Hitler was unable to stand on his feet all day, as more than 100 fragments were removed from his legs. In addition, his right arm was dislocated, the hair on the back of his head was singed and his eardrums were damaged. I became temporarily deaf in my right ear. He ordered the execution of the conspirators to be turned into humiliating torture, filmed and photographed. Subsequently, I personally watched this film.

Hitler gives Reichsmarschall Goering a painting by Hans Makart “Lady with a Falcon” (1880). Both Hitler and Goering were passionate art collectors: by 1945, Hitler's collection consisted of 6,755 paintings, Goering's collection - 1,375. Paintings were purchased (including at reduced prices with the help of threats) by agents working for Hitler and Goering, and were given as gifts to those close to them. , were confiscated from museums in German-occupied countries. Disputes over the legal status of some paintings from the former collections of Nazi Germany leaders are still ongoing.

One of the last photographs of Hitler. The Fuhrer in the garden of the Imperial Chancellery awards young members of the Hitler Youth brigade mobilized to defend Berlin.

According to the official version, Hitler, together with his wife Eva Braun, committed suicide on April 30, having previously killed his beloved dog Blondie. In Russian historiography, the point of view has been established that Hitler took poison (potassium cyanide, like most Nazis who committed suicide), however, according to eyewitnesses, he shot himself. There is also a version according to which Hitler, having taken an ampoule of poison into his mouth and bit into it, simultaneously shot himself with a pistol (thus using both instruments of death).

According to witnesses from among the service personnel, even the day before, Hitler gave the order to deliver cans of gasoline from the garage (to destroy the bodies). On April 30, after lunch, Hitler said goodbye to people from his inner circle and, shaking their hands, together with Eva Braun, retired to his apartment, from where the sound of a shot was soon heard. Shortly after 15:15, Hitler's servant Heinz Linge, accompanied by his adjutant Otto Günsche, Goebbels, Bormann and Axmann, entered the Fuhrer's apartment. Dead Hitler sat on the sofa; a blood stain was spreading on his temple. Eva Braun lay nearby, with no visible external injuries. Günsche and Linge wrapped Hitler's body in a soldier's blanket and carried it out into the garden of the Reich Chancellery; after him they carried out Eve’s body. The corpses were placed near the entrance to the bunker, doused with gasoline and burned. In the photo: Hitler's burnt corpse during an examination carried out by Soviet specialists.

FBI photo montage made in 1945 in case Hitler tried to hide by changing his appearance.

There are a number of conspiracy theories claiming that Hitler did not commit suicide, but escaped. According to the most popular version, the Fuhrer and Eva Braun, leaving doubles in their place, fled to South America, where they lived happily under false names until a ripe old age. The photo allegedly shows 75-year-old Hitler on his deathbed:

Walter Frentz is a German photographer, cinematographer, and director. Personal photographer of Adolf Hitler. One of the key figures in the visual propaganda system of the Third Reich.

Received a degree in electrical engineering. While studying, he met Albert Speer, who later introduced and recommended him to Leni Riefenstahl. Before the outbreak of World War II, he worked as a cameraman at the Universum Film AG studio, in particular, he was a cameraman for Leni Riefenstahl on the set of the documentaries “Triumph of the Will” (1935) and “Olympia” (about the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin). In 1939, Frenz took color photographs of Moscow. In 1938 he joined the Luftwaffe and, accompanying Hitler, removed the Anschluss of Austria. V. Frenz was not a member of the NSDAP, but in 1941 he was accepted into the ranks of the SS. This happened during W. Frenz’s visit to Minsk together with Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler in the summer of 1941. On August 15, 1941, Walter Frenz wrote in his diary:

"Breakfast with the Reichsführer SS in Minsk, a prison camp, execution, lunch at the Government House, a mental hospital, a collective farm. The Reichsführer SS took two Belarusian boys with him (to be sent to Berlin). Received into the ranks of the SS by Lieutenant General Wolf."

He witnessed mass executions in Minsk.

As a newsreel cameraman (UFA-Wochenschau), he was sent by the Fuhrer's Main Headquarters (Führerhauptquartier) to film the occupation invasion of Warsaw and Paris. In addition to his official duties, Frenz played the role of a private photographer for Hitler and his inner circle. Along with Heinrich, Hoffmann was the only photographer with access to Adolf Hitler who specialized in color photography. From 1939 to 1945 he was a permanent correspondent for the propaganda film magazine "German Weekly Review".

Among the color photographs he completed:

Numerous portraits of high-ranking officials of the Third Reich;
. occupied Minsk (1941) and Sevastopol (1942);
. special objects: Atlantic Wall (1943), factory for the production of V-2 and V-4 retaliation weapons, Dora guns;
. destruction of the cities of Dresden, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Munich, etc. (1945).

He was interned by the Americans and spent several months in a camp in Hammelburg.

Former cameraman and photographer at Hitler's Headquarters Walter Frentz (1907-2004) in a prison cell in Frankfurt am Main. 1945 - 1946 After his arrest (05/22/1945), Frenz was sent to an American internment camp for Germans in Hammelburg (Lower Franconia) and remained there until 1946.

Martin Bormann (right) - "Hitler's shadow." Hitler's personal secretary, head of the Fuhrer's office. By the end of World War II, he had gained considerable influence as his personal secretary, controlling the flow of information and access to Hitler.

Adolf Hitler and representatives of the Wehrmacht High Command at the military training ground in Rügenwalde in Pomerania.

A. Hitler and Reichsführer SS G. Himmler, accompanied by SS generals and officers, on a walk near the Berghof residence.

Preparations for the launch of the German V-2 (V 2) ballistic missile at the Heidelager military training ground in the Blizna region in Poland.

The building of the Ministry of Public Education and Propaganda on Wilhelmplatz Square in Berlin, destroyed by British air bombs. In the background is the surviving building built for the ministry in 1938. The photo was presumably taken from the window of the old “Imperial Chancellery”.

The building of the old Imperial Chancellery on Wilhelmstrasse 77 in Berlin, destroyed as a result of an Allied raid. Presumably, March 14, 1945.

Adolf Hitler in the basement of the “Imperial Chancellery” in front of a model of the reconstruction of the city of Linz. The model was transported from the studio of the architect Hermann Giesler (1898-1987) in Munich to Berlin in February 1945 and placed in the basement of the “Imperial Chancellery”, where lighting fixtures were installed to simulate different times of day. At this time, Hitler often went down to the model to distract himself from the hopeless situation at the fronts.

On March 19, 1943, Adolf Hitler (center), Albert Speer (right) and other dignitaries arrived at the training ground in Rügenwald (now Darlowo, Poland), where they were presented with the super-heavy 800-mm Dora (80-cm- Kanone (E) and a prototype Sd.Kfz.184 Ferdinand self-propelled gun.

Luftwaffe chief Goering played with these toys

A Wehrmacht lieutenant and a German draftsman work on a photocopying table at Hitler's headquarters, Wolfsschanze.

Adolf Hitler and German officers walk their dogs at Rastenburg headquarters. Winter 1942-1943.

Portrait of a Blondie

A. Hitler's personal secretary Gertraud "Traudl" Humps (1920-2002) on the terrace of the Berghof residence in Obersalzberg. In June 1943, G. Humps married Hitler's valet Hans Hermann Junge.

Adolf Hitler and General Alfred Jodl at the map of military operations at the Wolfschanze headquarters.

Adolf Hitler and Aviation Minister Hermann Goering surrounded by officers. The photo was taken during the demonstration of the Hetzer self-propelled gun for Hitler’s birthday.

Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, SS Brigadefuhrer and Hitler's personal dentist Hugo Blaschke, SS Brigadefuhrer and representative of the German Foreign Ministry at Hitler's main headquarters Walter Hevel and head of the NSDAP party office Reichsleiter Martin Bormann on the terrace of Hitler's Berghof residence. Spring 1943

Adolf Hitler at the Berghof residence in early April 1944

Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, 1883-1945) and Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel (Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel, 1882-1946) at Feltre airfield.

German aircraft designers Ernst Heinkel (1888 - 1958) and Claude Dornier (Claude Honoré Desiré Dornier, 1884 - 1969) at Hitler's Berghof residence.

Portrait of Adolf Hitler in the cabin of an airplane during a flight. 1942 - 1943

Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler talks to a local boy during an inspection tour of Belarus. This and another boy were sent to an orphanage in Germany. Next to Himmler are the chief of the personal staff of the Reichsführer SS Karl Wolf and the head of the “escort of the Reichsführer SS” and bodyguard Joseph Kirmayer, on the right is most likely a translator from the “order police”.

Soviet children from the village of Novinki near Minsk. The photograph was taken during an inspection by Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler of Minsk and its environs.

German artillerymen at the gunner's sights in the turret coastal installation of a 105-mm cannon (10.5 cm S.K.C/32) of the Atlantic Wall.

The base of the demolished Lenin monument in front of the Government House in occupied Minsk.

Destroyed by the explosion that occurred on November 3, 1941, the Assumption Cathedral of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra.

Barack (Lagebaracke), in which meetings were held on the situation at the fronts at Hitler's headquarters "Wolfschanze". On July 20, 1944, an attempt was made on Hitler’s life.

German artillerymen with a 75-mm field gun model 1897 (Canon de 75 mle 1897 Schneider) on the Atlantic Wall battery. The German designation of the gun is 75 mm FK 231(f).

Fuel tanks of V-2 (V-2) rockets on the assembly line in tunnel "B" of the Dora-Mittelbau underground plant.

The wreckage of a German V-2 (V 2) rocket in the Blizna area after an unsuccessful launch from the Heidelager test site in Poland.

Portrait of a Red Army artillery commander in German captivity.

Portrait of a Red Army soldier in a prisoner of war camp in Belarus.

SS Obersturmbannführer, commissioner of the euthanasia program and personal physician of A. Hitler Karl Brandt (Karl Brandt, 1904-1948) examines the jaw of a captured Red Army soldier in a prisoner of war camp in Belarus.

Portrait of a cook at Hitler's Headquarters, Otto Günther, who received the nickname Krümel ("Little") at the headquarters.

A. Hitler in front of a model for the reconstruction of the city of Linz in the studio of the architect G. Giesler (Hermann Giesler, 1898-1987) in Munich.

The chief of staff of the operational leadership of the Supreme High Command of the Wehrmacht, Major General Alfred Jodl (Alfred Jodl, in the foreground), Adolf Hitler and the chief of staff of the Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht, Colonel General W. Keitel (Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel) discuss the progress of the war with France at the map in the main headquarters "Felsennest" near Bad Münstereifel. Behind them is A. Jodl's adjutant, Major Willy Deyhle.

Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler inspects a psychiatric hospital in the village of Novinki near Minsk.

Gauleiter of Danzig-West Prussia Albert Forster (1902-1952) plays the guitar at the wedding of Hitler's personal secretary Gerda Daranovski (1913-1997) and Luftwaffe lieutenant colonel at the main headquarters Eckhard Christian (1907-1985).

Adolf Hitler and Berlin's General Building Inspector Albert Speer select stone samples for the construction of a new building in Berlin. The photograph was taken in the courtyard of the new Imperial Chancellery.

Berlin Inspector General for Construction Albert Speer (1905-1981) wearing an SS cap during a car ride in Belgium. Speer was not a member of the SS, and the cap was not part of his everyday dress and uniform.

Adolf and his half-brother Alois Jr. ceded their shares of her inheritance to her sisters, Angela and Paula. In February 1908, young Hitler again went to Vienna. He has very little left to live on: an orphan's allowance and the remains of his father's inheritance. His friend Gustl Kubizek soon settled with Adolf in Vienna, who soon successfully passed the entrance exams to the music academy. Hitler again failed to enter the Academy of Arts and, in a rage, called the teachers there “a bunch of fools, bureaucrats from the Stone Age.”

Drawing made by Adolf Hitler during his youth in Vienna

Hitler was to spend most of his youth in Vienna. The poor Adolf led a Spartan lifestyle there and, out of economy, ate only milk and bread all day long. But every week he and Kubizek attended the opera. Hitler especially liked Wagner and the Romantic composers: Weber, Schubert and Schumann. Adolf tried to write dramas based on ancient German mythology and history. Kubizek and Hitler also talked about sex, with Adolf stating that before marriage, a man and a woman must take care of the purity of body and soul in order to produce healthy offspring.

In the summer of 1908, Hitler and Kubizek left Vienna for their native places. In early autumn, Hitler returned to Vienna, but his new attempt to enter the Academy of Arts was again unsuccessful. He was completely running out of money. In November, Hitler rented another, cheaper room, cutting off contact with both Kubizek and his family, who advised him to give up his dreams of art and find a practical job.

Hitler spent about another year in Vienna without any specific activities. His resources were eventually so exhausted that in October 1909 he sold some of his clothes and turned to living in charity shelters. An extreme individualist, Hitler found it very difficult to eke out his youth in a large room with many neighbors and walk to the dining room in a formation. Adolf became close to the old tramp Hanisch in a rooming house. Having learned about the artistic talents of his new acquaintance, Hanisch invited Hitler to draw postcards with views of Vienna, volunteering to sell them for half the proceeds. This activity began to bring in a small income. At the beginning of 1910, Hitler and Hanisch even moved to another shelter, where for an additional payment each could get a separate personal closet.

Young Hitler's room soon turned into a kind of forum, where 15-20 semi-educated rooming house guests gathered to talk about literature and politics. The eloquent Adolf became the leader of this group, often making heated speeches. In them he usually condemned the Social Democrats and praised the leader of the anti-Semitic Christian Socialist Party, Karl Lueger. But Hitler’s hatred of Judaism did not manifest itself too clearly in his youth. Two of his closest friends at the orphanage were Jews. Adolf was respected by his comrades for his politeness and willingness to help. But in political disputes, he constantly reached the point of shouting and waving his arms, showing extreme intransigence.

In the fall of 1910, Hitler again tried to enter the Academy of Arts, but his works were again not recognized as sufficiently professional, although they praised their knowledge of the laws of composition and the thoroughness of their drawing. Desperately in need of money, Adolf turned to his aunt Johanna for help, and she, feeling sorry for her young nephew, gave him a significant part of her fairly decent savings.

View of Vienna as depicted by Hitler in his youth

At the beginning of 1911, Aunt Johanna died. Hitler's half-sister, Angela Raubal, who also supported her younger sister Paula, having learned that Adolf received a considerable amount of her aunt's money, filed a lawsuit against him. In it, she demanded half of her brother’s orphan’s allowance. Hitler, in response, voluntarily renounced his entire orphan allowance in favor of Angela.

In 1911 and 1912 he continued to live in the orphanage and paint. The quality of his work improved noticeably, but Hitler was only good at architectural views, and his people’s faces came out expressionless and distorted. Among other residents, he maintained a reputation as an intellectual.

Hitler spent five and a half years of his youth in Vienna. He later called this period “the most vile” in his life, but at the same time – her “school”. Over the years, Hitler's desire to gain more and more manifested itself. common German a fatherland that would unite his native Austria-Hungary and the German Hohenzollern Reich. On May 24, 1913, having packed all his belongings into one small, shabby bag, he set off from Vienna, Austria, to Munich, Germany.

The article was written based on materials from the book “Adolf Hitler” by John Toland, which was awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in the USA

Hitler in Landsberg prison during a visit from party comrades. 1924

Hitler's parents: Clara and Alois.

Hitler's birth certificate. 1889 Braunau, Austria.

Little Hitler (third from left in the bottom row) with classmates. Fischlham, Austria. 1895

School photograph 1901

Hitler in the crowd at Odeonplatz during the mobilization of the German army during the First World War. Munich, August 2, 1914

Hitler (back row, second from right) in a military hospital. 1918

Volunteer Hitler (right) with the 2nd Bavarian Infantry Regiment of the Bavarian Army during the First World War. 1916

A rising star in German politics. 1921

During the 1923 election campaign.

Hitler in shorts, 1924. “Some photographs of Adolf Hitler look like a buffoon, but they prove that he experimented with his image. Those. Hitler was a very modern politician for his time,” says the preface of the book “Hitler Was My Friend” by Heinrich Hoffmann, who was Hitler’s personal photographer.

"Apocalyptic, visionary, compelling." Staged photo shoot by Heinrich Hoffmann. 1925

The face of Nazism.

Portrait 1932

At the groundbreaking of the new Reichsbank building. May 1932.

Speech at the trial in Leipzig 1933

Hitler visiting his prison cell in Landsberg prison, where he wrote "Mein Kampf" ten years ago. 1934

Hitler and Goebbels signing autographs at the 1936 Olympics

Hitler says goodbye to those present while leaving the New Year's banquet. Berlin, 1936

At someone's wedding.

At Thanksgiving in Bückeburg. 1937

During the construction of the highway.

Hitler wears brown Nazi clothing during an outdoor speech in Austria. 1938

At a rehearsal of the Leopoldhall orchestra in Munich. 1938

During a visit to the occupied Sudetenland in the city of Graslitz. 1938

With Austrian fans. 1939

On board the Robert Ley on its maiden voyage.

During lunch on the front line. 1940

Hitler with guests at the table at his residence in Obersalzberg. 1939

At a Christmas banquet with German generals. 1941

"Children's Friend"

Hitler with Emmy and Edda Goering. 1940 Emmy Goering - German actress, second wife of Hermann Goering. Since the then Reich Chancellor and Reich President of Germany Adolf Hitler did not have a wife, Emmy Goering was secretly considered the “first lady” of Germany and in this capacity, along with Magda Goebbels, who tried to play the same role, she led various charitable events.

"Friend of Animals"

Hitler and Eva Braun with their Scottish terriers.

Hitler also had a shepherd, Blondie.

Reading the morning press.

Hitler and Eva Braun. 1943

Hitler, Goering and Guderian discuss the Bulge. October 1944

Hitler visits one of the officers, like himself, who suffered from an unsuccessful attempt on his life on July 20, 1944. After the assassination attempt, Hitler was unable to stand on his feet all day, as more than 100 fragments were removed from his legs. In addition, his right arm was dislocated, the hair on the back of his head was singed and his eardrums were damaged. I became temporarily deaf in my right ear. He ordered the execution of the conspirators to be turned into humiliating torture, filmed and photographed. Subsequently, I personally watched this film.

One of the last photographs of Hitler. The Fuhrer in the garden of the Imperial Chancellery awards young members of the Hitler Youth brigade mobilized to defend Berlin.

Hitler gives Reichsmarschall Goering a painting by Hans Makart “Lady with a Falcon” (1880). Both Hitler and Goering were passionate art collectors: by 1945, Hitler's collection consisted of 6,755 paintings, Goering's collection - 1,375. Paintings were purchased (including at reduced prices with the help of threats) by agents working for Hitler and Goering, and were given as gifts to those close to them. , were confiscated from museums in German-occupied countries. Disputes over the legal status of some paintings from the former collections of Nazi Germany leaders are still ongoing.

According to the official version, Hitler, together with his wife Eva Braun, committed suicide on April 30, having previously killed his beloved dog Blondie. In Russian historiography, the point of view has been established that Hitler took poison (potassium cyanide, like most Nazis who committed suicide), however, according to eyewitnesses, he shot himself. There is also a version according to which Hitler, having taken an ampoule of poison into his mouth and bit into it, simultaneously shot himself with a pistol (thus using both instruments of death).

According to witnesses from among the service personnel, even the day before, Hitler gave the order to deliver cans of gasoline from the garage (to destroy the bodies). On April 30, after lunch, Hitler said goodbye to people from his inner circle and, shaking their hands, together with Eva Braun, retired to his apartment, from where the sound of a shot was soon heard. Shortly after 15:15, Hitler's servant Heinz Linge, accompanied by his adjutant Otto Günsche, Goebbels, Bormann and Axmann, entered the Fuhrer's apartment. Dead Hitler sat on the sofa; a blood stain was spreading on his temple.

Eva Braun lay nearby, with no visible external injuries. Günsche and Linge wrapped Hitler's body in a soldier's blanket and carried it out into the garden of the Reich Chancellery; after him they carried out Eve’s body. The corpses were placed near the entrance to the bunker, doused with gasoline and burned. In the photo: Hitler's burnt corpse during an examination carried out by Soviet specialists.

FBI photo montage made in 1945 in case Hitler tried to hide by changing his appearance.

There are a number of conspiracy theories claiming that Hitler did not commit suicide, but escaped. According to the most popular version, the Fuhrer and Eva Braun, leaving doubles in their place, fled to South America, where they lived happily under false names until a ripe old age. The photo allegedly shows 75-year-old Hitler on his deathbed.