Adolf Hitler (back to camera) w. Inge Ley, blonde wife of labor ldr. Robert Ley during reception. (DATED 1940'S)
In Hugo Jaeger’s archive there are plenty of photographs with Hitler looking over various parades, at the backdrop of cartoonish swastikas, etc. But Jaeger had an incredible access and those are really interesting shots. Adolf Hitler today is either a caricature suitable for YouTube parodies or an arch metaphor of evil. Oh, the retched catastrophe of the 20th century, the extraordinary ordinary dictators that dominated that era. An ordinary man like Hitler becomes a messianic metaphor by borrowing evil from the people. It’s far easier to treat Hitler as an arch evil; it redeems the humanity from the uncomfortable recognition. Indeed Hitler was only playing with the shadows, the dark gifts that people willingly gave him. But there is more to it; the caricature serves the benevolent dictators and the purveyors of the crowd adulation. The arch good ones want the power on the flip (good) side of this mass transaction. Christ triggers Antichrist, so the super evil must have a super man to fight it. But both good and bad are powerless without borrowing (stealing) from the people. Both good and bad heroes can’t bless or curse; they just point their dreadful fingers at the good and the evil of the humanity.
Adolf Hitler (black ink above his head in the last row) and his school mates, probably Fischlam, Austria in 1895 (Hugo Jaeger archive)
Grave of Adolf Hitler's grandmother, Maria Anna Hitler, Doellersheim, Austria. Hugo Jaeger, 1950
No, Hitler didn’t grow up in the South Bronx, he grew up in the most quaint, beautiful little town in Austria.
Fischlham, Austria where Hitler began school, Hugo Jaeger 1945
Fischlham, Austria where Hitler began school in 1895
Lambach Austria, where Adolf Hitler attended Benedicitine Monastery
Adolf Hitler's Schoolmates in 1945
German soldiers comforting wounded comrade who has just had his arm (foreground) blown off in the bloody East Front fighting vs. Russia. Hugo Jaeger, 1942
Hitler greeting two unidentified women (twins?) at his 50th birthday celebration, Berlin, Germany, April 20, 1939
An interesting photo from the KDF trip, more about KDF and Robert Ley, who hung himself in the American custody, later.
Hitler, wearing Arbeitsfront cap, aboard the KDF Ship Robert Ley on its maiden voyage with Inge Ley (Robert Ley's wife) 1939
Hitler centered among Austrian girls. 1939
Hitler and Generals at his 1941 Christmas party
Hitler's 1941 Christmas Party for Nazi party members
Hitler's 1941 Christmas Party for Nazi party members
Hitler at the International Auto Exhibition in Berlin Germany, February 17, 1939
Ferdinand Porsche (in suit) presenting Hitler with a convertible Volkswagen for his 50th birthday. Berlin, April 20, 1939
Hitler's girlfriend Eva Braun, 1939
Wholesome and cute, complete with a cat… People like to say that Hitler was a fag. This says more about homophobia of these people than Hitler’s “sexual orientation”. I am still talking the ordinary theme here.
Hitler's girlfriend Eva Braun, 1939
The House of German Art in Munich on the "Day of German Art". L: Goebbels, von Schoberth behind, Hitler, ?, Alfieri, Frau Troost, Bormann behind, ?, and Himmler. 1939
"Leda and the Swan" by Padua. Chosen by Hitler for display at "Day of German Art"
Not many dedicators can pull off somehting like that without t a scandal. Killing people is the good old tradition but naked women, that really taking it too far.
Sepp Hilz, with model and painting "Peasant Venus," chosen by Hitler fro display at "Day of German Art"
After battle of Rossee during the German invasion of Belgium, May 1940
Unidentified, probally in the house of German Art, for the "Day of German Art"
Jewish women and children in Gostynin Poland after the German invasion, October 1939
Professor Morrel, wife of Gauletier Forster and Hitler at Hitler's Obersalzburg house, 1939
Flea market in Warsaw ghetto. October 1939
Jewish teenagers in Warsaw, October 1939
Warsaw ghetto, October 1939
Hitler at reception for German artists; in the Chancellery. Berlin 1940
In Hitler's private apartment in the Chancellery, Berlin 1939
Hitler's private apartment in the Chancellery, Berlin 1939
A day before Friedrich Paulus gave up himself and his army under Stalingrad, Hitler radioed Friedrich Paulus and promoted him to Field Marshal. Hitler noted that not a single German or Prussian Filed Marshal in history ever surrendered, therefore it was implicit command for Friedrich Paulus to end his life. In response Friedrich Paulus famously quipped to the officers around him: “I have no intention of shooting myself for this Bohemian corporal.”
Hugo Jaeger File
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That is quite a collection – that we should never forget this bastard and his likes.
Thanks for making this available.
Your blogs are an asset to humanity.
Ami