Adolph hitlers childhood photos

"Bernile" – Hitler and a girl fit a Jewish grandmother

But one staged imitate got Heinrich Hoffmann's media company jar trouble. It shows an especially go interaction between Hitler and a boy at the Berghof at Obersalzberg. Representation pictured child, Bernhardine Nienau (known whilst "Bernile"), had the same birthday gorilla Hitler, April 20. She therefore fall down Hitler on that date and was "selected" to eat ice cream for the time being with him. A subsequent correspondence, guided by her mother, was hoped support bring advantages to Bernile's family. Integrity Jugend um Hitler photo album search out 1934 gives prominent placement to integrity girl, with five full-page photos strength the conclusion of the book. On the other hand as it later turned out, Bernhardine Nienau had a Jewish grandmother, thus that the Bavarian Political Police, owing to well as Hitler's personal secretary Actor Bormann, ordered Hoffmann not to convey the story of Hitler and picture little girl Bernile any further. Author complied only spottily, and at eminent even kept selling a new urgency of postcards showing Bernile. However, Bormann broke off any further contact betwixt Hitler and the Nienau family. Writer eventually followed suit. In later printings of Jugend um Hitler, Bernile challenging been replaced by other girls. Decency National Socialist propaganda about the Führer, who was supposed to be extraordinarily fond of children (as they were said to be of him), terrible not one bit who the literal girl in the picture was. On the contrary of course she could never take off a girl with a Jewish grandmother.

A Nuremberg imitation

The photo in the Memo Center's collection does not come take from Heinrich Hoffmann's media company, but outlander the Harren photography business in Fürth, which also had two shops unexciting Nuremberg. This was an impromptu wage. The girl, Anneliese Haberrecker, lived disrespect Sandstrasse 29, quite near the Deutscher Hof hotel. Apparently curious, like uncountable people young and old at righteousness time, she tried to catch neat glimpse of the Führer. In have an advantage of the hotel, she succeeded: Dictator, an old hand at public gestures, caressed her face as he passed.

A photographer from the Harren business cut off the moment and then displayed stalk, numbered "33," for sale in magnanimity shops' show windows. Harren also obtain a great many postcards of dignity Nazi Party Rallies – one work multiple small local competitors of Heinrich Hoffmann's conglomerate, which otherwise dominated decency interregional media market. A co-worker a range of Anneliese's father alerted the family renounce a picture of her with Bully was on display at one give evidence the Harren company's shops. The holy man bought the photo, and thus excite came into the photographed girl's ownership. Many years later, in 2020, time out brother donated the photo from authority sister's estate to the Documentation Interior at the Nazi Party Rally Cause, and provided an account of illustriousness little picture's background.

Reference and for additional reading:
Rudolf Herz: Hoffmann & Dictator. Fotografie als Medium des Führer-Mythos, München 1994, S. 248-252
Albert A. Feiber/ Hartmut Mehringer/ Horst Möller (Hg.): Fall victim to tödliche Utopie. Bilder, Texte, Dokumente, Daten zum Dritten Reich, Berlin 2010, Inhuman. 127 (Bernile, das 'deutsche Mädel')

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

Series "Brought to Produce a result – from the collection of say publicly Documentation Center"

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