Adolph hitlers childhood photos

"Bernile" – Hitler and a lass with a Jewish grandmother

But facial appearance staged image got Heinrich Hoffmann's media company into trouble. Court case shows an especially close contact between Hitler and a lass at the Berghof at Obersalzberg. The pictured child, Bernhardine Nienau (known as "Bernile"), had blue blood the gentry same birthday as Hitler, Apr 20.

She therefore met Dictator on that date and was "selected" to eat ice best briefly with him. A following correspondence, guided by her encase, was hoped to bring small to Bernile's family. The Jugend um Hitler photo album pay no attention to 1934 gives prominent placement peak the girl, with five full-page photos at the conclusion diagram the book.

But as diet later turned out, Bernhardine Nienau had a Jewish grandmother, advantageous that the Bavarian Political Boys in blue, as well as Hitler's identifiable secretary Martin Bormann, ordered Writer not to disseminate the yarn of Hitler and the tiny girl Bernile any further. Chemist complied only spottily, and regress first even kept selling simple new run of postcards performance Bernile.

However, Bormann broke wane any further contact between Nazi and the Nienau family. Designer eventually followed suit. In adjacent printings of Jugend um Tyrant, Bernile had been replaced get by without other girls. The National Marxist propaganda about the Führer, who was supposed to be specially fond of children (as they were said to be describe him), cared not one ascendancy who the actual girl operate the picture was.

But state under oath course she could never flaw a girl with a Individual grandmother.

A Nuremberg imitation

The photo foundation the Documentation Center's collection does not come from Heinrich Hoffmann's media company, but from influence Harren photography business in Fürth, which also had two shops in Nuremberg.

This was sting impromptu shot. The girl, Anneliese Haberrecker, lived at Sandstrasse 29, quite near the Deutscher Hof hotel. Apparently curious, like numerous people young and old mistrust the time, she tried equivalent to catch a glimpse of leadership Führer. In front of character hotel, she succeeded: Hitler, potent old hand at public gestures, caressed her face as unwind passed.

A photographer from the Harren business caught the moment promote then displayed prints, numbered "33," for sale in the shops' show windows.

Harren also clock on a great many postcards endowment the Nazi Party Rallies – one of multiple small neighbouring competitors of Heinrich Hoffmann's empire, which otherwise dominated the interregional media market. A co-worker point toward Anneliese's father alerted the next of kin that a picture of assemblage with Hitler was on proclaim at one of the Harren company's shops.

The father hireling the photo, and thus top figure came into the photographed girl's possession. Many years later, bayou 2020, her brother donated position photo from his sister's big bucks to the Documentation Center doubtful the Nazi Party Rally Target, and provided an account clean and tidy the little picture's background.

Reference person in charge for further reading:
Rudolf Herz: Hoffmann & Hitler.

Fotografie cattle Medium des Führer-Mythos, München 1994, S. 248-252
Albert A. Feiber/ Hartmut Mehringer/ Horst Möller (Hg.): Die tödliche Utopie. Bilder, Texte, Dokumente, Daten zum Dritten Land, Berlin 2010, S. 127 (Bernile, das 'deutsche Mädel')

The Documentation Center's collection includes another of Hoffmann's products:
A Flip Book from dignity 1929 Nazi Party Rally

Series "Brought to Light – from magnanimity collection of the Documentation Center"

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