It's entertaining, I suppose! "By 1944 Adolf Hitler’s image - with his trademark toothbrush mustache and dark hair slicked into a side parting - was known by the world. However, U.S intelligence officers feared the Nazi leader would be able to flee from Germany by assuming a disguise and - to prepare for this eventuality - ordered his portrait to be cloned. The following pictures, released by the U.S. National Archives in Washington, show head shots of 'Der Fuehrer' in numerous guises. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), an early version of the CIA set up during World War II, asked Eddie Senz, a New York make-up artist, to produce the altered portraits after D-Day on 6 June 1944. Photos of Senz's re-imaginings of Hitler were circulated to Allied Commanders during the War but were not seen by the public until German magazine, Der Spiegel, discovered and published them in the 1990s. American fears of the dictator escaping Berlin were unfounded and within a year of the portraits being commissioned he had committed suicide. " Hitler in disguise: U.S intelligence prepped for Nazi leader fleeing by creating images of what he would look like minus the mustache | Mail Online
Interesting. I would have to say the bald headed one would have thrown me off the trail specially if Adolph spoke Italian and had garlic on his breath and add a monocle and hummed arias ...
Any of these is ridiculous, but I like the "professorial" one. I found the last part interesting: Authors of the book ‘Grey Wolf: The Escape Of Adolf’, released last year, argued that evidence of the tyrant’s suicide is flawed and that he did managed to escape to South America. The sensationalist claims were ridiculed by leading historian Guy Walters as ‘2,000 per cent rubbish.’ Read more: Hitler in disguise: U.S intelligence prepped for Nazi leader fleeing by creating images of what he would look like minus the mustache | Mail Online (Psst, Gordon. You really should stay away from The Mail. I fear it's having some effect on you.)
Due to Stalin's orders to keep the dead of Hitler a secret, there was a lot of confusion during many years. Very interesting stuff to read about.
After taking a round-about tour (got sidetracked by Lord Lichfields collection) I noticed these two have an eerie similarity; View attachment 16360
