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Adolf Hitler greets King Boris III of Bulgaria.

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    Adolf Hitler greets King Boris III of Bulgaria.
    Adolf Hitler greets King Boris III of Bulgaria. 

Original caption reads: The Führer received King Boris of Bulgaria at his headquarters following the collapse of the Yugoslavian state for discussion of pending political questions and...

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    Caption
    Adolf Hitler greets King Boris III of Bulgaria.

    Original caption reads: The Führer received King Boris of Bulgaria at his headquarters following the collapse of the Yugoslavian state for discussion of pending political questions and...
    Photographer
    Heinrich Hoffmann
    Date
    1941 April 25 - 1941 April 30
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Perquimans County Library

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    Photo Source
    USHMM (copyright unknown)
    Copyright: Unknown
    Provenance: Perquimans County Library
    Second Provenance: Joseph C. Jordan
    Published Source
    Grossdeutschland in Weltgeschehen Tagesberichte - Hoffman, Heinrich

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    Biography
    Heinrich Hoffmann (1885-1957) was Hitler's official photographer and personal friend. The son of a professional photographer, Hoffmann learned his trade as a young man working in his father's studio in Fuerth. He honed his skills during WWI when he served as a photographer in the Bavarian Army. Hoffmann first met Adolf Hitler in Munich in 1919 and a close personal and political relationship soon developed. It was Hoffmann who introduced Hitler to Eva Braun, then an employee in Hoffmann's photography studio. In 1920 Hoffmann joined the Nazi party and began his career as the Fuehrer's personal photographer. He accompanied Hitler on all his travels during the period of his rise to power and joined him on his tours of the various fronts during WWII. For much of Hitler's political career Hoffmann was the only photographer permitted to take his picture. It is estimated that Hoffmann took over 2.5 million photographs, a portion of which were published in a long series of photograph albums that appeared in the 1930s. Royalties from the use of these images made both Hoffmann and Hitler extremely wealthy. After the war the U.S. Army seized the portion of the Hoffmann collection that was stored in the town of Winhoering. Part of this archive was then sent to Nuremberg for use by the War Crimes Commission. From Nuremberg this archive was transferred to the Army's Historical Division in Frankfurt in April 1949, and from there to the Army's German Military Documents Section in Alexandria, Virginia in October 1949. Other parts of Hoffmann's collection were seized by the U.S. Army in Freising and Bavaria and by a Time-Life photographer in Berlin. Heinrich Hoffmann himself was arrested in 1947 and tried by a West German court as a Nazi war profiteer. He was sentenced to ten years imprisonment (later reduced to five) and most of his personal wealth was confiscated.

    [SOURCES: R. Wistrich, Who's Who in Nazi Germany, 155; Encyclopedia of the Third Reich; Records of the District of Columbia District Court: Hoffmann vs. United States of America]
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