Hitler Up Close - New Life Magazine Photos

Life has published some new photos of Hitler in the 30s and 40s..

Hitler Among the Cars, 1939 - Adolf Hitler: Up Close - LIFE

 

Interesting pics, thanx for sharing them here!

 

Very nice in color and from different views of known photos and some unknown

 

very interesting photos, don't think i've seen any of them before - thanks, texson

 

those are so clear and crisp, amazing what they can do with these old pics!
Thanks!

 

I knew someone would get this up before I got home from work. Nice. There is another album called Hitler amongst the crowds.

These are new never released to the public pictures that Life has had since ca 1970.

 

I loved Life and Look and Colliers too! When I was in grad school, sometimes I'd get the old Life mags from the WWII era at the library and browse them for the photos, stories, and ads. A nice break from study. Those pages would just immediately take me back as close as I could ever get to that time in WWII.

(Remember: Those ads for Camel's where 4 out of 5 doctors recommended them because they are smooth!)

BTW, I think what is scary is that potential for cruelty and evil is present in ever one; most people can turn them off and control those urges, but "the dark side " won in the case of Hitler and his henchmen! Such pictures remind us of that terrible potential in us all while being ordinary humans living daily life.

 

What these pictures show us is that Hitler was a man. He wasn't a monster, something less than human. No, he was a man of flesh and blood. In reading about the man, the one thing I have always strived to acquire is a sense of his humanity.Not humanity in a moral sense--for we all know he was lacking in that department--but of Hitler as a person.

These pictures help humanize history's most infamous monster.

 

Great photos of Hitler! mmmm..........I don;t knowe why Hitler was sulted though.

 

Those photos were very interesting, back when I returned to college to finish my degree I had a collection of never opened Time and Life magazines from the forties which I had discovered in the basement of an old drug store in an abandoned town. They had been put down there by the owner when the didn't sell off the display rack. They were great fun reading, and as you mentioned the ads were priceless. I remember one vividly since it showed a "cut-away" drawing of the RCA proximity fuze shell. With the caption "secret no more" (or something). I donated the two boxes full to my college library, since I was certain they would take better care of them than I could. They are still there, I go up and browse through them on occassion.

 

Each LIFE photo caught a very special moment in time. I probably took about 20-30 seconds to reflect on each one. Great web-site! and thank you for sharing Tex...aka J.R.

 

what website did you get those from