Miniature Nazi propaganda booklet featuring Hitler

Publication | Accession Number: 2005.39.10

Title: Der Fuhrers in den Bergen
Date: 1939 (publication/distribution)
Geography: publication : Berlin (Germany)
Language: German
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Howard A. Strauch

Physical Description: Minature booklet; ill. black and white images. There is a string looped through a small hole at the upper left corner.
Contributor: Photographer: Heinrich Hoffmann
Publisher: Winter-Hilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes,
Biography: Heinrich Hoffmann (1885-1957), German photographer and Nazi propagandist. The son and nephew of photographers, he worked in the Hoppé studio in London before setting up in Munich as a portraitist and photojournalist. His photograph of cheering crowds on 2 August 1914 unwittingly captured the young Adolf Hitler, a fact which would later benefit Hoffmann's career. Drifting to the far right after the First World War and revolutionary events in Bavaria, he joined the Nazi Party in 1920 and convinced an initially camera-shy Hitler of photography's political value. (The relationship was cemented by Hitler's liaison, from 1930, with Hoffmann's assistant Eva Braun.) After 1933 his virtual monopoly of Hitler photographs, as ‘the man who sees the Führer for us’, made him one of the Third Reich's major profiteers. His scenes of carefully constructed intimacy, presenting his master, especially in the regime's early years, as a clean-living, nature-loving man of the people, were massively disseminated. After 1945, though claiming to have been a mere chronicler of events, he was fined and imprisoned. His extensive photo archive survives.
Topical Term: Miniature books--Specimens.
World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Pictorial works.
Personal Name: Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945--Pictorial works.
Corporate Name: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei--Pictorial works.
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The miniature booklet was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by H. Arnold Strauch.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
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