Photo Hitler. Rare photos of Hitler (61 photos). Communication with children

Walter Frentz is a German photographer, cameraman and director. Adolf Hitler's personal photographer. One of the key figures in the system of visual propaganda of the Third Reich.

Received a degree in electrical engineering. During his studies, he met Albert Speer, who later introduced and recommended him to Leni Riefenstahl. Before the outbreak of World War II, he worked as a cameraman at the Universum Film AG studio, in particular, he was a cameraman for Leni Riefenstahl on the set of documentaries Triumph of the Will (1935) and Olympia (about the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin). In 1939, Franz took color photographs of Moscow. In 1938 he joined the Luftwaffe and, accompanying Hitler, filmed the Anschluss of Austria. V. Frentz was not a member of the NSDAP, but in 1941 he was admitted to the ranks of the SS. It happened during the visit of W. Frentz to Minsk together with the Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler in the summer of 1941. On August 15, 1941, Walter Frentz wrote in his diary:

"Breakfast with the Reichsfuehrer SS in Minsk, a prison camp, execution, lunch at the Government House, a mental hospital, a collective farm. The Reichsfuehrer SS took two Belarusian boys with him (to be sent to Berlin). He was accepted into the ranks of the SS by Lieutenant General Wolf."

He witnessed mass executions in Minsk.

As a newsreel operator (UFA-Wochenschau) he was sent by the Fuhrer's Headquarters (Führerhauptquartier) to film the invaders' invasion of Warsaw and Paris. In addition to his official duties, Franz played the role of a private photographer for Hitler and his inner circle. Along with Heinrich Hoffmann, he was the only photographer who had access to Adolf Hitler, who specialized in color photography. From 1939 to 1945 he was a regular correspondent for the propaganda film magazine "German Weekly Review".

Among his color photography:

Numerous portraits of dignitaries of the Third Reich;
. occupied Minsk (1941) and Sevastopol (1942);
. special objects: the Atlantic Wall (1943), a factory for the production of V-2 and V-4 retaliatory weapons, Dora guns;
. the destruction of the cities of Dresden, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Munich and others (1945).

He was interned by the Americans and spent several months in a camp in Hammelburg.

Walter Frentz (Walter Frentz, 1907-2004), a former cameraman and photographer at Hitler's Headquarters, in a prison cell in Frankfurt am Main. 1945 - 1946 After his arrest (05/22/1945), Franz was sent to an American camp for German internment in Hammelburg (Lower Franconia) and stayed there until 1946.

Martin Bormann (right) - "Hitler's shadow". Hitler's personal secretary, head of the Fuhrer's office. By the end of World War II, he had gained considerable influence as a personal secretary, controlling the flow of information and access to Hitler.

Adolf Hitler and representatives of the High Command of the Wehrmacht at the military training ground in Rügenwalde (Rügenwalde) in Pomerania.

A. Hitler and SS Reichsfuehrer G. Himmler, accompanied by SS generals and officers, for a walk near the Berghof residence.

Preparations for the launch of the German ballistic missile "V-2" (V 2) at the military training ground "Heidelager" (Heidelager) near Blizny (Blizna) in Poland.

The building of the Ministry of Education and Propaganda on Wilhelmplatz Square in Berlin, destroyed by British air bombs. In the background is a surviving building built for the Ministry in 1938. The picture was taken presumably from the window of the old "Imperial Chancellery".

Destroyed as a result of an Allied raid, the building of the old Imperial Chancellery "on Wilhelmstrasse 77 in Berlin. Presumably March 14, 1945

Adolf Hitler in the basement of the "Imperial Chancellery" in front of the layout of the restructuring of the city of Linz. The model was delivered from the workshop of the architect Hermann Giesler (1898-1987) in Munich to Berlin in February 1945 and placed in the basement of the "Imperial Chancellery", where lighting fixtures were installed to simulate different times of the day. At this time, Hitler often went down to the layout to distract himself from the stalemate on the fronts.

On March 19, 1943, Adolf Hitler (center), Albert Speer (right) and other dignitaries arrived at the training ground in Rügenwald (now Darlowo, Poland), where they were presented with the super-heavy 800-mm Dora railway gun (80-cm- Kanone (E) and prototype self-propelled guns Sd.Kfz.184 "Ferdinand".

Such toys were played by the chief of the Luftwaffe Goering

A Wehrmacht lieutenant and a German draftsman work on a photocopy table at Hitler's Wolfsschanze Headquarters.

Adolf Hitler and German officers walking their dogs at Rastenburg headquarters. Winter 1942-1943.

Blondie portrait

A. Hitler's personal secretary Gertraud (Traudl) Humps (Gertraud "Traudl" Humps, 1920-2002) on the terrace of the Berghof residence in Obersalzberg. In June 1943, G. Humps married Hitler's valet Hans Hermann Junge.

Adolf Hitler and General Jodl (Alfred Jodl) at the map of military operations at the Wolfschanze headquarters.

Adolf Hitler and Aviation Minister Hermann Goering surrounded by officers. The picture was taken during the demonstration of the self-propelled guns "Hetzer" on the birthday of Hitler.

SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler, SS Brigadeführer and Hitler's personal dentist Hugo Blaschke, SS Brigadeführer and representative of the German Foreign Ministry at Hitler's main headquarters Walter Hevel and head of the NSDAP Party Chancellery Reichsleiter Martin Bormann on the terrace of Hitler's Berghof residence. Spring 1943

Adolf Hitler at the Berghof residence in early April 1944

Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, 1883-1945) and Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel (Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel, 1882-1946) at the Feltre airfield.

German aircraft designers Ernst Heinkel (1888 - 1958) and Claude Dornier (Claude Honoré Desiré Dornier, 1884 - 1969) at Hitler's Berghof residence.

Portrait of Adolf Hitler in the cabin during the flight. 1942 - 1943

Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler talks to a local boy during an inspection tour of Belarus. This and another boy were sent to an orphanage in Germany. Next to Himmler is the head of the personal staff of the Reichsfuhrer SS Karl Wolf and the head of the "escort of the Reichsfuhrer SS" and bodyguard Josef Kirmeier, on the right - most likely a translator from the "order police".

Soviet children from the Novinki village near Minsk. The picture was taken during the inspection of the Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler of Minsk and its environs.

German gunners at the gunners' sights in the coastal turret of the 105-mm cannon (10.5 cm S.K.C/32) of the Atlantic Wall.

The basement of the demolished monument to Lenin in front of the Government House in occupied Minsk.

Destroyed by the explosion that occurred on 11/03/1941, the Assumption Cathedral of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.

The barrack (Lagebaracke), in which meetings were held on the situation on the fronts at Hitler's headquarters "Wolfschanze". On July 20, 1944, an attempt on Hitler's life took place there.

German gunners at the 75-mm field gun model 1897 (Canon de 75 mle 1897 Schneider) on the battery of the Atlantic Wall. The German designation for the gun is 75 mm FK 231(f).

Fuel tanks of V-2 (V-2) rockets on the assembly line in tunnel "B" of the Dora-Mittelbau underground plant.

The wreckage of a German V-2 (V 2) rocket in the Blizna area after an unsuccessful launch from the Heidelager test site in Poland.

Portrait of an artillery commander of the Red Army in German captivity.

Portrait of a Red Army soldier in a POW camp in Belarus.

SS Obersturmbannführer, authorized to carry out the euthanasia program and personal physician of A. Hitler Karl Brandt (Karl Brandt, 1904-1948) examines the jaw of a captured Red Army soldier in a prisoner of war camp in Belarus.

Portrait of a cook at Hitler's Headquarters, Otto Günther, who received the nickname Krümel ("Baby") at headquarters.

A. Hitler in front of the layout of the restructuring of the city of Linz in the workshop of the architect G. Giesler (Hermann Giesler, 1898-1987) in Munich.

Chief of Staff of the Operational Command of the Wehrmacht High Command, Major General Alfred Jodl (Alfred Jodl, in the foreground), Adolf Hitler and Chief of Staff of the Wehrmacht High Command, Colonel General W. Keitel (Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel) discuss the course of the war with France at the map in the main Felsennest headquarters near Bad Münstereifel. Behind them is A. Jodl's adjutant, Major Willy Deyhle.

Reichsfuehrer SS Heinrich Himmler inspects a psychiatric hospital in the village of Novinki near Minsk.

Gauleiter of Danzig-West Prussia Albert Forster (Albert Forster, 1902-1952) plays the guitar at the wedding of Hitler's personal secretary Gerda Daranovski (1913-1997) and Luftwaffe lieutenant colonel at the main rate Eckhard Christian (Eckhard Christian, 1907-1985).

Adolf Hitler and Berlin Inspector General for Construction Albert Speer select stone samples for the construction of a new building in Berlin. The photo was taken in the courtyard of the new Imperial Chancellery.

Inspector General of Berlin for Construction Albert Speer (Albert Speer, 1905-1981) in the cap of the SS troops during a car trip in Belgium. Speer was not a member of the SS, and the cap was not part of his everyday clothes and uniform.

Hitler in Landsberg prison during the visit of party comrades. 1924

Hitler's parents: Clara and Alois.

Hitler's birth certificate. 1889 Braunau, Austria.

Little Hitler (third from left in the bottom row) with classmates. Fischlham, Austria. 1895

School photograph 1901

1904

Hitler in the crowd at Odeonplatz during the mobilization of the German army during the First World War. Munich, August 2, 1914

Hitler (back row, second from right) in a military hospital. 1918

Volunteer Hitler (right) in the 2nd Bavarian Infantry Regiment of the Bavarian Army during the First World War. 1916

Rising star of German politics. 1921

During the election campaign of 1923.

Hitler in shorts, 1924 “Some photos of Adolf Hitler look like a jester, but they prove that he experimented with his image. Those. Hitler was a very modern politician for his time,” reads the preface to the book “Hitler Was My Friend” by Heinrich Hoffmann, who was Hitler’s personal photographer.

"Apocalyptic, visionary, compelling." Staged photoset by Heinrich Hoffmann. 1925

The face of Nazism.

Portrait 1932

At the laying of a new Reichsbank building. May 1932.

Speech at the trial in Leipzig 1933

Hitler visiting his prison cell at Landsberg Prison, where he wrote "Mein Kampf" ten years ago. 1934

Hitler and Goebbels signing autographs at the 1936 Olympics

Hitler says goodbye to those present leaving the New Year's banquet. Berlin, 1936

At someone's wedding.

Thanksgiving in Bückeburg. 1937

On the construction of the autobahn.

Speaker

Hitler in brown Nazi clothing during an outdoor speech in Austria. 1938

At a rehearsal of the Leopoldhall Orchestra in Munich. 1938

During a visit to the occupied Sudetenland in the town of Graslitz. 1938

With Austrian fans. 1939

On board the Robert Ley on its maiden voyage.

During lunch on the front line. 1940

Hitler with guests at the table in his residence in Obersalzberg. 1939

At a Christmas banquet with German generals. 1941

"Friend of the Children"

Hitler with Emmy and Edda Goering. 1940 Emmy Goering - German actress, second wife of Hermann Goering. Since the then Reich Chancellor and Reich President of Germany, Adolf Hitler, did not have a wife, Emmy Goering was tacitly considered the “first lady” of Germany and, in this capacity, along with Magda Goebbels, who tried to play the same role, led various charity events.

"Friend of the Animals"

Hitler and Eva Braun with their Scottish Terriers.

Hitler also had a shepherd named Blondie.

Reading the morning press.

Hitler and Eva Braun. 1943

Hitler, Goering and Guderian are discussing the Ardennes operation. October 1944

Hitler visits one of the officers, just like him, who suffered from an unsuccessful assassination attempt on him on July 20, 1944. After the assassination attempt, Hitler was unable to stay on his feet all day, as more than 100 fragments were removed from his legs. In addition, he had a dislocation of his right arm, the hair on the back of his head was scorched, and his eardrums were damaged. I was temporarily deaf in my right ear. He ordered that the execution of the conspirators be turned into humiliating torment, filmed and photographed. Subsequently, he personally watched this film.

One of the last photos of Hitler. The Fuhrer in the garden of the Imperial Chancellery rewards the young members of the Hitler Youth brigade, mobilized to defend Berlin.

Hitler presents Reichsmarschall Göring with Hans Makart's Lady with a Falcon (1880). Both Hitler and Goering were passionate art collectors: by 1945, the Hitler collection consisted of 6,755 paintings, the Goering collection - 1,375. Paintings were acquired (including at reduced prices with the help of threats) by agents working for Hitler and Goering, donated , were confiscated from the museums of the countries occupied by Germany. Disputes over the legal status of some paintings from the former collections of the leaders of Nazi Germany are still going on.

According to the official version, Hitler, along with his wife Eva Braun, committed suicide on April 30, after killing his beloved dog Blondie. In Russian historiography, the point of view was established that Hitler took poison (potassium cyanide, like most Nazis who committed suicide), however, according to eyewitnesses, he shot himself. There is also a version according to which Hitler, having taken an ampoule of poison into his mouth and bit through it, simultaneously shot himself with a pistol (thus using both instruments of death).

According to witnesses from among the attendants, even the day before, Hitler gave the order to deliver canisters of gasoline from the garage (to destroy the bodies). On April 30, after dinner, Hitler said goodbye to people from his inner circle and, shaking hands with them, retired to his apartment with Eva Braun, from where the sound of a shot was soon heard. Shortly after 3:15 pm, Hitler's servant Heinz Linge, accompanied by his adjutant Otto Günsche, Goebbels, Bormann and Axmann, entered the Fuhrer's quarters. Dead Hitler sat on the couch; there was a blood stain on his temple.

Eva Braun lay next to her, with no visible external injuries. Günsche and Linge wrapped Hitler's body in a soldier's blanket and carried it into the garden of the Reich Chancellery; Eve's body was carried out after him. The corpses were placed near the entrance to the bunker, doused with gasoline and burned. In the photo: the charred corpse of Hitler at the examination carried out by Soviet specialists.

A 1945 FBI montage in case Hitler tried to hide by disguising himself.

There are a number of conspiracy theories claiming that Hitler did not commit suicide, but escaped. According to the most popular version, the Fuhrer and Eva Braun, leaving doubles in their place, hid in South America, where they lived safely under false names until old age. The photo allegedly depicts 75-year-old Hitler on his deathbed.

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Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. Later, the remains of the dictator were discovered by the Soviet military and taken to Moscow.

But the very fact of Hitler's death is still shrouded in all sorts of secrets and mysteries. There are many theories, in addition to the official version, according to which the remains of Hitler were not genuine, he did not commit suicide or even survived.

26 April. Soviet troops occupied three-quarters of Berlin. Hopeless Hitler is in a two-story bunker at a depth of 8 meters under the courtyard of the imperial office.

Together with him in the bunker are his mistress Eva Braun, Goebbels with his family, chief of the general staff Krebs, secretaries, adjutants, security guards.

According to the testimony of an officer of the General Staff, on this day Hitler presented a terrible picture: he moved with difficulty and clumsily, throwing his upper body forward and dragging his legs ... The Fuhrer had difficulty maintaining balance. His left hand did not obey him, and his right hand was constantly trembling ... Hitler's eyes were bloodshot ...

In the evening, one of the best female pilots in Germany, Hanna Reitsch, fanatically devoted to Hitler, arrived in the bunker. She later recalled that the Fuhrer invited her to his place and said: “Hannah, you belong to those who will die with me. Each of us has a vial of poison."

He handed the ampoule to Hanna with the words: “I don’t want any of us to fall into the hands of the Russians, and I don’t want the Russians to get our bodies. Eve's bodies and mine will be burned."

As Reitsch testified, during the conversation, Hitler presented a terrible picture: almost blindly rushing from wall to wall with paper in trembling hands. “A completely disintegrated person,” the pilot stated.

29 April. The marriage of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun took place. The process took place in accordance with the law: a marriage contract was drawn up and a wedding ceremony was performed.

Witnesses, as well as Krebs, Goebbels' wife, Hitler's adjutants, General Burgdorf and Colonel Belov, secretaries and a cook were invited to the wedding celebration. And after a small feast, Hitler retired to draw up a will.

April 30. The Fuhrer's last day has come. After lunch, on Hitler's orders, his personal chauffeur, SS Standartenführer Kempka, delivers canisters with 200 liters of gasoline to the garden of the Imperial Chancellery.

This is the last photograph of Hitler taken on April 30th. On the threshold of the bunker in the courtyard of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, the Fuhrer was captured by one of the officers of his personal bodyguard.

In the conference room, Hitler and Braun say goodbye to Bormann, Goebbels, Burgdorf, Krebs, Axman, who came here, to the Fuhrer's secretaries Junge and Weichelt.

According to the first version, based on the testimony of Hitler's personal valet Linge, the Fuhrer and Eva Braun shot themselves at 15.30. There is even a photo of Hitler's body with a bullet mark, the authenticity of which is in question.

When Linge and Bormann entered the room, Hitler was allegedly sitting on a sofa in the corner, a revolver lying on the table in front of him, blood flowing from his right temple. The dead Eva Braun, who was in the other corner, dropped her revolver on the floor.

Another version (accepted by almost all historians) says: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were poisoned by potassium cyanide. In addition, before his death, the Fuhrer also poisoned two beloved shepherd dogs.

By order of Bormann, the bodies of the deceased were wrapped in blankets, taken out into the yard, and then doused with gasoline and burned in a shell crater. Since they burned badly, the SS men buried the half-burnt corpses in the ground.

The bodies of Hitler and Brown were discovered by the Red Army soldier Churakov on May 4, but for some reason they lay for 4 whole days without examination: they were taken for examination and identification to one of the Berlin morgues on May 8.

An external examination gave reason to believe that the charred corpses of a man and a woman were the remains of the Fuhrer and his wife. But, as you know, Hitler and Braun had several doubles, so the Soviet military authorities intended to conduct a thorough investigation.

The question of whether the person delivered to the morgue was really Hitler still worries researchers.

According to an eyewitness, the man's corpse was in a wooden box 163 cm long, 55 cm wide and 53 cm high, respectively. A burnt piece of knitted fabric of a yellowish tint, similar to a shirt, was found on the body.

During his lifetime, Hitler repeatedly turned to his dentist, as evidenced by the large number of fillings and gold crowns on the preserved parts of the jaws. They were confiscated and transferred to the SMERSH-3 department of the Shock Army.

On May 11, 1945, the dentist Gaiserman described in detail the anatomical data of Hitler's oral cavity, which coincided with the results of a study conducted on May 8.

There were no visible signs of severe fatal injuries or diseases on the body damaged by fire. But a crushed glass ampoule was found in the oral cavity. The characteristic smell of bitter almonds emanated from the corpse.

The same ampoules were found during the autopsy of another 10 corpses close to Hitler. It was found that death was the result of cyanide poisoning.

On the same day, an autopsy was performed on the corpse of a woman, presumably belonging to Eva Braun. Despite the fact that there was a broken glass ampoule in the mouth and the smell of bitter almonds also emanated from the corpse, traces of a shrapnel wound and 6 small metal fragments were found in the chest.

Military intelligence officers packed the remains in wooden boxes and buried them in the ground near Berlin. However, soon the Chekist headquarters changed its location, and after it the boxes went.

In a new place, they were buried again, and then, at the next move, they were removed from the ground.

She found a permanent home at a military base near the city of Magdeburg. Here, the boxes lay in the ground until 1970, when the territory of the base came under the jurisdiction of the GDR.

On March 13, 1970, the head of the KGB, Yuri Andropov, gave the order to destroy the remains. They were cremated and the ashes scattered from a helicopter into the air.

For history, only the jaws of the dictator and a fragment of his skull with a bullet hole were left.

This material evidence of the death of Adolf Hitler was sent to Moscow and placed in the archives of the KGB.

Rumors that Adolf Hitler was alive appeared almost immediately after his death. The British, French, and Americans doubted the death of the dictator. There was persistent talk about the amazing rescue of the Fuhrer.

It was rumored that he fled from Berlin abroad along the so-called "rat trail". It was a "window" on the border with Switzerland. Through it, high-ranking officials of the Third Reich with forged documents made their way to a neutral country, and from there they were sent to fascist Spain or the countries of Latin America.

Regarding the flight of the dictator to South America, there are even a number of FBI "documents" regarding the investigation of this fact.

However, most historians continue to argue that Hitler had no chance of escaping Berlin.

In response, they put forward a version that Hitler might not have been in the bunker under the Reich Chancellery at all. On this issue, there is a version that all tactical issues were decided by the Fuhrer's double. It was he who was shot on April 30, 1945.

Together with him, Eva Braun was also killed, so that the death of the country's main Nazi would look more natural. Hitler himself, at this time, again sailed away in a submarine towards South America, changing his appearance.

Similar versions are expressed at the present time.

Newspapers wrote about them, publishing the supposedly surviving clothes of the Fuhrer, in which he arrived in Peru or Paraguay.

There were even photos of the surviving Hitler, calmly meeting old age incognito.

But historians say in response that the Fuhrer could not be called a coward. His courage is evidenced by the fact that he volunteered for the front in the First World War and was awarded several iron crosses for courage, and also had wounds received in battle.

After that, it is simply illogical to say that at the most difficult moment for the nation, the Führer cowardly runs, leaving a double in his place, is simply illogical.

In favor of the fact that Hitler was in the bunker is also the fact that only after his death did the Germans put forward a proposal for a truce. Having been refused, Goebbels committed suicide, poisoning his entire family. Bormann did the same a few hours later.

In 2009, Vasily Khristoforov, head of the Registration and Archival Funds Department of the FSB of Russia, said that in 1946 a special commission carried out additional excavations at the site where the bodies of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were found. At the same time, "the left parietal part of the skull with an exit bullet hole" was found.

In 1948, the "finds" from the Fuhrer's bunker (several burnt objects, as well as fragments of jaws and teeth, which were used to identify the corpses of Hitler, Eva Braun and the Goebbels) were sent to Moscow, to the investigative department of the 2nd Main Directorate of the MGB of the USSR.

Since 1954, by order of the Chairman of the KGB under the Council of Ministers of the USSR Serov, all these items and materials were stored in a special order in a special room of the departmental archive.

Since 2009, Hitler's jaws have been kept in the FSB archive, and skull fragments in the State Archives.

However, a DNA analysis conducted in 2009 by employees of an American university from the city of Hartford (Connecticut) destroyed the entire evidence base regarding the death of the dictator. According to their version, the badly damaged skull bone did not belong to Adolf Hitler at all. She didn't belong to a man at all. It was a fragment of a woman's skull. Moreover, the woman at the time of her death was in the prime of life - 35-40 years old.

This statement caused a big scandal. The FSB officers completely refused to recognize its authenticity. And later they also expressed a version about the mistake of the Soviet soldiers who collected the remains.

It seems that the point in this matter will never be put. Although, at present, most often the "survivor" Hitler and his doubles become heroes of memes, rather than major scientific disputes.

The rampant Nazism in the 30-40s of the last century is one of the most terrible and bloody events in history. Take a look at rare photos of the one who led the criminal acts against humanity.

The main person involved, the founder and executor of the embodiment of the bloody Nazi dream was Adolf Hitler, whose portrait became the face of fascism and Nazism all over the world.

In our article you will see a large selection of photographs from the life of this most terrible dictator. Many of the photographs are rare and appeared in the public domain quite recently, when they were sold under the hammer at one of the auctions in the spring.

When you look into the face of this person, the blood freezes and is horrified by the realization that all the most terrible events - millions of deaths, hellish experiments and bullying of people and children - happened on our Earth precisely because of him.

root of evil

Hitler's parents, father - Alois (1837-1903) and mother - Clara (1860-1907) were formally relatives, so his father had to obtain permission to marry. Alois was a very difficult person with a tough character, he often arranged drunken brawls in the house and assaulted him. The unfortunate mother saw the light in the window only in her little son Adolf and completely gave him her love and hyper-care. He was her fourth child, the first three died at an early age from illness.

Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Austria in the small village of Ranshofen.

From an early age, the boy drew well, which his father was terribly dissatisfied with and forbade his son to do. The mother, on the contrary, tried to develop the boy's skills behind Alois's back and constantly inspired him that he was immensely talented and would become famous. When the father caught the eye of his son's drawings, he became furious and asked the two of them a beating, to which his wife screamed at him in despair that he was wrong, his son would still be famous all over the world. And she was right, but he became famous not for artistic drawings.

School years of Adolf Hitler

In his school years, Hitler was distinguished by good studies, leadership qualities, and he had already begun to show the makings of nationalism and a desire to join the ranks of the Boer warriors. He colorfully demonstrated all this in drawings, showing them to his peers. According to experts, this behavior could be caused by an emotional protest in front of a despotic father, who demanded unquestioning obedience from his son.

According to the recollections of Alois Jr., Hitler's half-brother, Adolf was cruel and could become furious from minor reasons, he did not love anyone except his mother, and was a narcissist. He was also overly spoiled - his mother indulged Adolf in everything, so he was all got out of hand.

The beginning of the path of the dictator

Munich 08/02/1914 Hitler at a rally at Odeonplatz during the mobilization of the German army to participate in the First World War.

Growing up, Hitler tried to enter an art school and was completely sure that he would succeed without difficulty. But what a blow it was for him when he was not enrolled, saying that his drawings were good, but not sufficient for an art school, with such skills he was recommended to go to the Faculty of Architecture. Adolf was furious, he believed that mediocrity was working in the school, who were not able to appreciate truly talented things.

For several years he tried to enter art schools, but everywhere he was refused. The feeling of an ideal artist nurtured by his mother haunted him, although in reality it turned out that he did not have the talent that Clara, blinded by maternal love, idealized.

After unsuccessful attempts to become an artist, the death of his mother, impoverishment and wandering, Hitler volunteered for the German army, which then unleashed the First World War. According to the recollections of fellow soldiers, Adolf was brave, quiet and executive, for which he quickly received the rank of corporal in the service, but Hitler was not given a leading rank, as he was considered an excellent performer who lacked leadership qualities. Fellow soldiers also noted his inexplicable luck: Hitler always returned from the battlefield alive and unharmed, even if his entire detachment was defeated, and when injuries occurred, they were light and did not threaten the life of the future Fuhrer.

Front photos of Hitler during World War I

During the First World War, the nationalist sentiments and beliefs of Adolf only grew and strengthened, and by leaps and bounds. When Germany began to lose and lose ground, then in the rear, in the meantime, due to poverty and hunger, protest moods began, which Hitler regarded as a betrayal.

What are the Jews guilty of?

The beginning of Hitler's ascent to the political Olympus in 1921

At the end of the war, Hitler left military service, which never became his career, but allowed him to have like-minded people, of whom there were only 7 people. With these people, Hitler began his political career, and later the realization of his dreams. He wanted little: "become the sole leader of Germany and start a fight against the hated Jews, and enslave the whole world." Hatred of the Jews fueled his sick imagination, Adolf believed that this nation wants to seize power over other nations and make them faceless.

Hitler was not always an anti-Semite, he had Jewish friends throughout his life who helped him to varying degrees. Anger and hatred began to grow after the death of her mother, who was ill with cancer, and her doctor was a Jew. Hitler repeatedly thanked this doctor for doing his best to cure his mother. But, most likely, Hitler had a subconscious resentment against the doctor because he did not save his mother, and she was the only person whom the Fuhrer was madly in love with, and after her death he grieved greatly. Therefore, over time, resentment grew into an obsessive hatred for the entire Jewish people.

First successes and the Beer putsch

Hitler's career grew rapidly in the political sphere, he was a great orator who could hold the attention of the crowd and captivate in his ideas.

In his speeches, the future chancellor played on the patriotic sentiments of the population that reigned in Germany after the war and the failed surrender, which led the country to huge external debts and economic decline.

When the audience of listeners who came to his speeches grew to 2,000 people, Hitler began to suppress by force everyone who shouted out discontent: they were dragged out and beaten by his stormtroopers.

Having no significant obstacles from the authorities, Adolf became more aggressive and staged whole massacres with protesters against his actions and ideas with the help of entire self-defense units he created, for which he once spent 5 weeks in prison.

Hitler enlisted the experience and support of Mussolini, the Italian dictator who had successfully gained power in Italy in the 1920s through conquest and violent repression.

Beer Hall "Bürgerbräukeller" (1923), where the Beer Putsch began. Photo from the German Federal Archives

The capture of the building of the Ministry of War by the fighters of Rem during the Beer Putsch. With the banner - Himmler

In 1923, Hitler staged a putsch in Germany to seize power, which was called the "beer putsch." The seizure of power failed due to the betrayal of some of his supporters, although at first it was successful. During these events, 18 people died, including law enforcement officers and Nazis.

The birth of the famous Mein Kampf

Hitler was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison as a riot organizer, but was then released early in December 1924. In prison, he wrote his famous two-volume memoir, consisting of an autobiography and a political campaign, which he called "Mein Kampf", translated from the German "My Struggle". Also during the year of imprisonment, Hitler thought about the mistakes for a long time and realized that Mussolini's scenario of a violent seizure of power was not suitable for Germany, and built a new plan of action.

At Ludendorff's trial, from left to right: lawyer Holt, Weber, Roder, General Ludendorff and Adolf Hitler, 1923

After leaving the Landsberg prison in Landsberg an der Lech in Bavaria, December 1924.

In the German Federal Archives, two documents of Adolf Hitler have been preserved: the first is a permit to carry weapons, the second is confirming his membership in the National Socialist German Workers' Party, as the first person under No. 1.

Hitler's election speeches

German Nazis meeting in Munich 1929

Hitler is an excellent orator. Early 1930s, in the election race.

Photo portrait 1932.

At the construction site of the new building of the Reichsbank (the central bank of the German Empire) May 1932.

When Hitler got out of prison, he built a new plan, political, to achieve the goal. His calculation was to play on the national sentiments of the population and the middle class, which at that time was experiencing difficult financial difficulties, as well as to put pressure on the authorities. He now and then arranged various kinds of provocations.

At the pinnacle of power

After 14 years of ups and downs in the political arena through violent and political action, several rounds of elections and pressure on the German government, Hitler came to power as Chancellor on January 30, 1933. The celebration of this event resulted in the famous torchlight procession through Berlin.

No one then could have imagined what kind of beast in human form was entrusted with power. After all, in the last years in the election race, Hitler concealed and restrained his anti-Semitic aspirations and desire to resort to radical measures to realize the idea of ​​purifying Germany and the world from the Jewish race.

Mass Nazi rally in Bückeburg, 1934

Visiting his prison cell in Landsberg Prison 10 years later, where Hitler wrote his book "Mein Kampf" 1934.

1936 Olympic Games, German leaders signing autographs

Berlin 1936, Hitler's farewell at the New Year's banquet with the guests present

The wedding of the Nazi elite

All those in power who helped get Hitler such a high position in the government had the illusion that this "Nazi upstart" would become a cornered puppet in their hands, but they soon paid a bitter price for this and realized their irreparable mistake belatedly.

In the pursuit of power, Hitler decided to take care of his health in order to have time to bring his vile ideas to life and, as he believed, save Germany. Therefore, the Fuhrer became a true vegetarian, as a result of which he actively created laws for the protection of animals and toughened the punishment for their violations.

Communication with animals

Fuhrer's favorite German Shepherd Blondie

Hitler with his Scotch Terriers

Communication with children

Also, Hitler always showed concern for German children as the future of a pure nation.

Miscellaneous events during the reign of Hitler

The first statement that Hitler made as chancellor was to rearm the army and restore it to full combat capability, after which it would be possible to conquer the lands in the East with their full Germanization.

Bückeburg, 1937 Thanksgiving Day

Regular rallies

The Reichstag, a decision was made on the peaceful annexation of Austria in 1938.

Preparing for a performance by the Leopoldhall Orchestra Munich 1938.

Visit to the city of Graslitz, temporarily occupied Sudetenland, 1938.

Nazi rally in Czechoslovakia, the city of Eger 1938

Hitler with Austrian admirers in 1939.

Events leading up to World War II

Performance on the first of May at the stadium in 1939.

After Hitler came to power, the holiday received official status in 1933 - National Labor Day.

Hitler at the theater in Charlottenburg, May 1939.

The first voyage of the ship Robert Ley, Hitler on board the ship.

Tea drinking at his residence in Obersalzberg (Bavarian Alps) 1939.

The height of World War II

Hitler having lunch on the front line, 1940.

France 40th year

Hitler with Emmy and Edda Goering 1940

Emmy is a German theater and film actress, the second wife of Hermann Göring, who was secretly considered the first lady of Germany. Together with Magda Goebbels (wife of the German Minister of Education) led various kinds of charity events. Edda's godfather was Hitler himself.

Christmas celebration with German top military officials, 1941.

Adolf Hitler greets German soldiers at the airport in Uman.

In the photo, Hitler is in the Ukrainian city of Uman and welcomes his soldiers. Hitler flew here with an inspection of the German and Italian military in the summer of 1941.

A symbolic gift to Hitler on the occasion of the capture of Sarajevo.

This tablet, hanging on the wall near the Latin Bridge, the soldiers hastened to remove and hand over to the Fuhrer, almost immediately after the capture of Sarajevo, as a symbol of their victory and the spread of Nazi power in these territories.

Visits to the hospital for wounded officers, 1944.

Hitler with Goebbels at a press conference in Berlin

Hitler's presentation to Marshal Goering - "Lady with a Falcon" (1880).

Both figures were collectors of paintings and other works of famous authors, by 1945 the collection of Adolf amounted to more than 6,000 paintings, Goering - more than 1,000. The paintings were acquired or confiscated by personal agents of political figures. The rights to these canvases are disputed to this day.

Hitler with Eva Braun

Hitler discussing the Ardennes operation with Göring and Guderian in October 1944

Inspection of the destruction after the bombing of the Soviet troops, spring 1945

The rarest recent footage

These are rare shots of Hitler in the last days of his life, because after the massive attacks of the Soviet army on the fascist detachments of the German troops, Hitler preferred to sit out in his underground bunker.

Last photo in life

Photo courtesy of the FBI, USA. A possible change in Hitler's appearance during his attempt to escape.

According to the official version, on April 30, 1945, together with his wife Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler committed suicide. Eva died after taking a poison capsule with no visible violent signs, and Hitler first shot his beloved German Shepherd before putting a bullet in his head.

Death of Adolf Hitler

According to information from Hitler's staff, the day before they were ordered to prepare canisters of gasoline to burn the corpses. On April 30, 1945, Hitler, shaking hands with people from his inner circle, went with his wife to his room, soon a shot rang out from her. After a while, the servants looked into their room, where they saw the corpse of the Fuhrer with a gunshot wound to the head and the corpse of Eva Braun with no visible injuries. After which they wrapped the bodies in army blankets, doused them with gasoline prepared earlier and burned them as ordered.

In the photo, a charred corpse is being examined by Soviet specialists.

But there is a version that Hitler, along with Brown, fled to South America, where they met their old age, and instead of themselves they left the corpses of twins. Even Stalin at one time put forward the version that Hitler was alive and hiding with the Allies.

In the photo, allegedly seventy-five-year-old Hitler on his deathbed.

Hitler's parents: Clara and Alois.

Hitler's birth certificate. 1889 Braunau, Austria.

Little Hitler (third from left in the bottom row) with classmates. Fischlham, Austria. 1895

School photograph 1901

Hitler in the crowd at Odeonplatz during the mobilization of the German army during the First World War. Munich, August 2, 1914

Hitler (back row, second from right) in a military hospital. 1918

Volunteer Hitler (right) in the 2nd Bavarian Infantry Regiment of the Bavarian Army during the First World War. 1916

Rising star of German politics. 1921

During the election campaign of 1923.

Hitler in shorts, 1924 “Some photos of Adolf Hitler look like a jester, but they prove that he experimented with his image. Those. Hitler was a very modern politician for his time,” reads the preface to the book “Hitler Was My Friend” by Heinrich Hoffmann, who was Hitler’s personal photographer.

"Apocalyptic, visionary, compelling." Staged photoset by Heinrich Hoffmann. 1925

Hitler says goodbye to those present leaving the New Year's banquet. Berlin, 1936

At someone's wedding.

On board the Robert Ley on its maiden voyage.

During lunch on the front line. 1940

Hitler with guests at the table in his residence in Obersalzberg. 1939

Hitler visits one of the officers, just like him, who suffered from an unsuccessful assassination attempt on him on July 20, 1944. After the assassination attempt, Hitler was unable to stay on his feet all day, as more than 100 fragments were removed from his legs. In addition, he had a dislocation of his right arm, the hair on the back of his head was scorched, and his eardrums were damaged. I was temporarily deaf in my right ear. He ordered that the execution of the conspirators be turned into humiliating torment, filmed and photographed. Subsequently, he personally watched this film.

One of the last photos of Hitler. The Fuhrer in the garden of the Imperial Chancellery rewards the young members of the Hitler Youth brigade, mobilized to defend Berlin.

According to the official version, Hitler, along with his wife Eva Braun, committed suicide on April 30, after killing his beloved dog Blondie. In Russian historiography, the point of view was established that Hitler took poison (potassium cyanide, like most Nazis who committed suicide), however, according to eyewitnesses, he shot himself. There is also a version according to which Hitler, having taken an ampoule of poison into his mouth and bit through it, simultaneously shot himself with a pistol (thus using both instruments of death).

According to witnesses from among the attendants, even the day before, Hitler gave the order to deliver canisters of gasoline from the garage (to destroy the bodies). On April 30, after dinner, Hitler said goodbye to people from his inner circle and, shaking hands with them, retired to his apartment with Eva Braun, from where the sound of a shot was soon heard. Shortly after 3:15 pm, Hitler's servant Heinz Linge, accompanied by his adjutant Otto Günsche, Goebbels, Bormann and Axmann, entered the Fuhrer's quarters. Dead Hitler sat on the couch; there was a blood stain on his temple.

Eva Braun lay next to her, with no visible external injuries. Günsche and Linge wrapped Hitler's body in a soldier's blanket and carried it into the garden of the Reich Chancellery; Eve's body was carried out after him. The corpses were placed near the entrance to the bunker, doused with gasoline and burned. In the photo: the charred corpse of Hitler at the examination carried out by Soviet specialists.

A 1945 FBI montage in case Hitler tried to hide by disguising himself.

There are a number of conspiracy theories claiming that Hitler did not commit suicide, but escaped. According to the most popular version, the Fuhrer and Eva Braun, leaving doubles in their place, hid in South America, where they lived safely under false names until old age. The photo allegedly depicts 75-year-old Hitler on his deathbed.