Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris

Frick, Hermann Kriebel, Erich Ludendorff, Adolf Hitler, Wilhelm Brückner, Ernst Röhm, Robert Wagner

    21. Hitler posing for a photograph, hurriedly taken by Hoffman because of the cold, at the gate to the town of Landsberg am Lech, immediately after his release from imprisonment

22. Hitler in Landsberg, postcard, 1924

23. The image: Hitler in Bavarian costume (rejected), 1925/6

    24. The image: Hitler in a raincoat (accepted), 1925/6

25. The image: Hitler with his alsatian, Prinz, 1925 (rejected, from a broken plate)

26. The Party Rally, Weimar, 3–4 July 1926: Hitler, standing in a car in light-coloured raincoat, taking the march-past of the SA, whose banner carries the slogan: ‘Death to Marxism’. Immediately to Hitler’s right is Wilhelm Frick and, beneath him, facing the camera, Julius Streicher

    27. The Party Rally, Nuremberg, 21 August 1927:
left to right,
Julius Streicher, Georg Hallermann, Franz von Pfeffer, Rudolf Heß, Adolf Hitler, Ulrich Graf

28. Hitler in SA uniform (rejected), 1928/9

29. Hitler in rhetorical pose. Postcard from August 1927. The caption reads: ‘In the passing of thousands of years, heroism will never be spoken of without remembering the German army of the world war’

    30. Hitler speaking to the NSDAP leadership, Munich, 30 August 1928.
Left to right:
Alfred Rosenberg, Walter Buch, Franz Xaver Schwarz, Hitler, Gregor Strasser, Heinrich Himmler. Sitting by the door, hands clasped, is Julius Streicher: to his left is Robert Ley

31. Geli Raubal and Hitler,
c.
1930

    32. Eva braun in Heinrich Hoffmann’s studio, early 1930s

33. Reich President Paul von Hindenburg

    34. Reich Chancellor Heinrich Brüning
(left)
with Benito Mussolini, Rome, August 1931

35. Reich Chancellor Franz von Papen
(front, right),
with State Secretary Dr Otto Meissner, at the annual celebration of the Reich Constitution, 11 August 1932. Behind von Papen is Reich Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Freiherr von Gayl, who, that very day, put forward proposals to make Weimar’s liberal constitution distinctly more authoritarian

    36. Gregor Strasser and Joseph Goebbels watching the SA parade past Hitler, Braunschweig, 18 October 1931

    37. Ernst Thälmann, leader of the KPD, at a rally of the ‘Red Front’ during the growing crisis of Weimar democracy,
c.
1930

38. Nazi election poster, 1932, directed against the SPD and the Jews. The slongan reads: ‘Marxism is the Guardian Angel of Capitalism. Vote National Socialist, List 1’

    39. Candidate placards for the presidential election, Berlin, April 1932

40. Discussion at Neudeck, the home of Reich President Paul von Hindenburg, 1932.
Left to right:
Reich Chancellor Franz von Papen, State Secretary Otto Meissner (back to camera), Reich Minister of the Interior Wilhelm von Gayl, Hindenburg, and Reichswehr Minister Kurt von Schleicher

    41. Reich Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher speaking in the Berlin Sportpalast, 15 January 1933

42. A photo taken of Hitler in the Kaiserhof Hotel, Berlin, in January 1933, just before his appointment as Chancellor, to test how he looked in evening dress

    43. The ‘Day of Potsdam’, 21 March 1933: a deferential Hitler bows to Reich President von Hindenburg

44. SA violence against Communists in Chemnitz, March 1933

    45. The boycott of Jewish doctors, April 1933. The stickers read: ‘Take note: Jew. Visiting Forbidden’

    46. An elderly Jew being taken into custody by police in Berlin, 1934

47. Hindenburg and Hitler on their way to the rally in Berlin’s Lustgarten on the ‘Day of National Labour’, 1 May 1933. The following day, the trades union movement was destroyed

    48. Hitler with Ernst Röhm at a parade of the SA in summer 1933, as problems with the SA began to emerge

49. The Führer cult: a postcard, designed by Hans von Norden in 1933, showing Hitler in a direct line from Frederick the Great, Otto von Bismarck, and Paul von Hindenburg. The caption reads: ‘What the King conquered, the Prince shaped, the Field Marshal defended, the Soldier saved and united’

    50. The Führer cult: ‘The Führer as animal-lover’, postcard, 1934

51. Hitler justifying the ‘Röhm purge’ to the Reichstag, 13 July 1934

52. Hitler, Professor Leonhard Gall, and architect Albert Speer inspecting the half-built ‘House of German Art’ in Munich. Undated cigarette-card,
c.
1935

    53. Hitler with young Bavarians. Behind him
(right)
in Bavarian costume, Hitler-Youth leader Baldur von Schirach. Undated photograph

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