Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Poster of three-quarter length portrait of Hitler
- Artwork Title
- Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer!
- Date
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publication/distribution:
1935
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
- Markings
- front: Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuehrer [One people, one state, one leader.]
- 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
- Language
- German
- Classification
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Posters
- Category
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Nazi propaganda
- Object Type
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Posters, German (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Lithographed poster on linen backing. Recto: three quarter length portrait of Adolf Hitler against a dark background with extremely subtle light framing his back. His body is slightly turned face right, resting right hand on his right hip and left elbow on chair back. He wears a dark green suit coat, cross (emblem) over left breast pocket and red armband on left bicep. He also wears tiny symbol, eagle holding swastika, on his necktie, just below the knot.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 46.500 inches (118.11 cm) | Width: 32.625 inches (82.868 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink, linen
- Inscription
- front, lower right corner, black ink : Carl Werner Reichenbach I.V.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Personal Name
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945--Posters.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The poster was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-14 08:59:04
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn8559
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The collection consists of three posters: a poster created by Ben Shahn for the US Office of War Information, a poster depicting a three-quarter length portrait of Hitler (Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer!), and an anti-Semitic propaganda poster.
Antisemitic Der Stürmer advertising flier showing several Jewish people smiling
Object
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Ben Shahn poster with an image of a hooded man protesting the Nazi destruction of Lidice
Object
Poster created by Ben Shahn for the US Office of War Information as a response to the Nazi-led annihilation and destruction of communities throughout the Czech Republic, including Lidice. It also protests the retaliatory measures taken for the attempted assassination by Czech resistance members of Reinhard Heydrich, director of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, under the Nazi occupation.