Overview
- Date
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publication/distribution:
1938
- Geography
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publication:
Germany
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Abraham Saifer
- Contributor
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Photographer:
Heinrich Hoffmann
- Biography
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Heinrich Hoffmann (1885-1957) was a 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, an event 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. Hoffman’s assistant, Eva Braun, became Hitler’s mistress in 1930. 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, including photographs of German political and religious figures, as well as actors, painters, and musicians.
Physical Details
- Classification
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Photographs
- Category
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Stereoscopic photography
- Object Type
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Stereoscopic photographs (aat)
- Physical Description
- Stereo-optic double imaged prints, accompanying eyeglasses and book dealing with Hitler's conquest of Austria.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 11.260 inches (28.6 cm) | Width: 7.990 inches (20.295 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, gelatin silver print, ink
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The photograph was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993 by Abraham Saifer.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:22:23
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