Hitler. Part 30

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

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

54. The Mercedes-Benz showroom at Lenbachplatz, Munich, April 1935.

55. Hitler during a visit to the Ruhr in 1935, accompanied (left to right) by his valet, Karl Krause, and the leading industrialists Albert Vogler, Fritz Thyssen (his photo a later insertion?), and Walter Borbet, all important executives of the United Steel Works.

56. 'Hitler in his Mountains': cover of a Heinrich Hoffmann publication of 1935, featuring 88 photographs of the Fuhrer in picturesque settings.

57. The swearing-in of new recruits at the Feldherrnhalle in Odeonsplatz, Munich, on the anniversary of the putsch, 7 November 1935.

58. German troops entering the demilitarized Rhineland across the Hohenzollern Bridge in Cologne, 7 March 1936.

59. Hitler, September 1936, portrayed wearing a suit and not the usual party uniform.

60. Hitler discussing plans in 1936 for new administrative buildings in Weimar with his up-and-coming favourite architect, Albert Speer. Fritz Sauckel, Reich Governor and Gauleiter of Thuringia, is on Hitler's right.

61. The Berlin Olympics, 1936: the crowd salutes. .h.i.tler.

62. British Royalty at the Berghof. Hitler meets the Duke and d.u.c.h.ess of Windsor on 22 October 1937, during the visit to Germany of the ex-King Edward VIII and his wife, the former Mrs Wallis Simpson.

63. Field-Marshal Werner von Blomberg in 1937. He was to be dismissed from office as War Minister the following January on account of a scandal concerning his wife. Field-Marshal Werner von Blomberg in 1937. He was to be dismissed from office as War Minister the following January on account of a scandal concerning his wife.

64. Colonel-General Werner Freiherr von Fritsch, Commander-in-Chief of the Army until his dismissal, in the wake of the Blomberg scandal, at the beginning of February 1938 on trumped-up charges of h.o.m.os.e.xuality. Colonel-General Werner Freiherr von Fritsch, Commander-in-Chief of the Army until his dismissal, in the wake of the Blomberg scandal, at the beginning of February 1938 on trumped-up charges of h.o.m.os.e.xuality.

65. Hitler addresses the exultant ma.s.ses in Vienna's Heldenplatz on 15 March 1938, following the Anschlu. Hitler addresses the exultant ma.s.ses in Vienna's Heldenplatz on 15 March 1938, following the Anschlu.

66. The Axis: flanked by Mussolini and King Victor-Emmanuel III, Hitler views a parade of troops in Rome during his visit to Italy in May 1938. The Axis: flanked by Mussolini and King Victor-Emmanuel III, Hitler views a parade of troops in Rome during his visit to Italy in May 1938.

67. Hitler is cheered by crowds of admirers in Florence.

68. Part of the exhibition 'The Eternal Jew', which opened in Munich on 8 November 1937 and ran until 31 January 1938, purporting to show the 'typical external features' of Jews and to demonstrate their supposedly Asiatic characteristics. The exhibition drew 412,300 visitors in all over 5,000 per day. It helped to promote the sharp growth of antisemitic violence in Munich and elsewhere in Germany during 1938.

69. 'Jews in Berlin', from the exhibition 'The Eternal Jew', which opened in the Reich capital on 12 November 1938. This was two days after Goebbels had unleashed a nation-wide orgy of violence in which Jewish property was destroyed throughout Germany, leading to ma.s.s arrests of Jews and their exclusion from business and commerce.

70. The synagogue in Fasanenstrae, Berlin, burns after n.a.z.i stormstroopers set it on fire during the pogrom of 910 November 1938.

71. The Jewish Community building in Ka.s.sel on the morning after the pogrom. Beds, papers, and furniture, thrown out by the n.a.z.i perpetrators, lie on the street. Onlookers and police watch as two people attempt to clear up.

72. Pa.s.sers-by some smiling, some looking in apparent bewilderment outside a demolished and looted Jewish shop in Berlin. The amount of gla.s.s smashed by n.a.z.i mobs gave rise to the sarcastic appellation 'Reichskristallnacht'.

73. A model family? Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, his wife Magda, and their children Helga, Hilde, and baby Helmut, posing for the camera in 1936.

74. Goebbels, broadcasting to the Germans on the eve of Hitler's fiftieth birthday, 20 April 1939. The Propaganda Minister's marriage had been under severe strain during the previous months on account of his affair with the Czech actress Lida Baarova, but for prestige reasons. .h.i.tler had insisted that Goebbels and his wife did not separate.

75. An unusual photograph, taken about 1938, of Eva Braun, Hitler's companion since 1932 a relations.h.i.+p kept secret from the German public until 1945.

76. With Hitler looking on, General Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the High Command of the Wehrmacht, greets the British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, at the Berghof on 15 September 1938, during the Sudeten crisis.

77. German troops crossing the Charles Bridge in Prague in March 1939, a few days after Hitler had forced the Czech government to agree to the imposition of a German Protectorate over the country.

78. Hitler's imposing 'study' in the Reich Chancellery, used more to impress visitors than for work.

79. Pomp and Circ.u.mstance: Hermann Goring addresses. .h.i.tler during a ceremonial occasion probably on Hitler's birthday, 20 April 1939 in the New Reich Chancellery, designed by Albert Speer and completed in early 1939.

80. 'The Fuhrer's birthday': Hitler is amused, on his forty-ninth birthday, 20 April 1938, when Ferdinand Porsche presents him with a model of the Volkswagen, pointing out that the engine is in the boot. None of the 336,000 Germans who ordered and paid for a car partly or in full ever took delivery of a Volkswagen. The vehicles were produced during the war exclusively for military purposes.

81. 'The Fuhrer's birthday': Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, gives. .h.i.tler his present a valuable equestrian portrait of Frederick the Great by Adolf von Menzel on the Fuhrer's fiftieth birthday, 20 April 1939, watched by Sepp Dietrich (centre), commander of the SS-Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, and (extreme right) Karl Wolff, chief of Himmler's personal staff.

82. Hitler, in evening dress, walks with Winifred Wagner past cheering crowds during the last Bayreuth Festival before the war, in July 1939.

83. Molotov signs the Non-Aggression Pact of the Soviet Union with Germany in the early hours of 24 August 1939, watched by (left to right) Red Army Chief of Staff Marshal Boris S. Shaposhnikov, adjutant to Ribbentrop Richard Schulze, a smug-looking German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Joseph Stalin.

84. Hitler in his temporary field-headquarters during the Polish campaign, together with his Wehrmacht adjutants, (from left to right) Captain Nicolaus von Below (Luftwaffe), Captain Gerhard Engel (Army), and Colonel Rudolf Schmundt (chief adjutant). Martin Bormann is on Hitler's left.