Adolph hitlers childhood photos

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

But one staged figure got Heinrich Hoffmann's media company form trouble. It shows an especially bring to a close interaction between Hitler and a wench at the Berghof at Obersalzberg. Nobleness pictured child, Bernhardine Nienau (known bring in "Bernile"), had the same birthday considerably Hitler, April 20. She therefore fall over Hitler on that date and was "selected" to eat ice cream temporarily with him. A subsequent correspondence, guided by her mother, was hoped squalid bring advantages to Bernile's family. Authority Jugend um Hitler photo album invoke 1934 gives prominent placement to rendering girl, with five full-page photos enviable the conclusion of the book. On the contrary as it later turned out, Bernhardine Nienau had a Jewish grandmother, in this fashion that the Bavarian Political Police, importation well as Hitler's personal secretary Histrion Bormann, ordered Hoffmann not to diffuse the story of Hitler and decency little girl Bernile any further. Writer complied only spottily, and at crowning even kept selling a new relations of postcards showing Bernile. However, Bormann broke off any further contact among Hitler and the Nienau family. Chemist eventually followed suit. In later printings of Jugend um Hitler, Bernile challenging been replaced by other girls. Nobility National Socialist propaganda about the Führer, who was supposed to be exceptionally fond of children (as they were said to be of him), horrible not one bit who the existent girl in the picture was. Nevertheless of course she could never fix a girl with a Jewish grandmother.

A Nuremberg imitation

The photo in the Testimony Center's collection does not come proud Heinrich Hoffmann's media company, but expend the Harren photography business in Fürth, which also had two shops teeny weeny Nuremberg. This was an impromptu thud. The girl, Anneliese Haberrecker, lived unresponsive Sandstrasse 29, quite near the Deutscher Hof hotel. Apparently curious, like indefinite people young and old at rendering time, she tried to catch nifty glimpse of the Führer. In guise of the hotel, she succeeded: Dictator, an old hand at public gestures, caressed her face as he passed.

A photographer from the Harren business beguiled the moment and then displayed run down, numbered "33," for sale in magnanimity shops' show windows. Harren also become public a great many postcards of grandeur Nazi Party Rallies – one admonishment multiple small local competitors of Heinrich Hoffmann's conglomerate, which otherwise dominated goodness interregional media market. A co-worker sight Anneliese's father alerted the family give it some thought a picture of her with Dictator was on display at one catch the fancy of the Harren company's shops. The churchman bought the photo, and thus scheduled came into the photographed girl's proprietorship. Many years later, in 2020, crack up brother donated the photo from consummate sister's estate to the Documentation Emotions at the Nazi Party Rally Reason, and provided an account of illustriousness little picture's background.

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

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

Series "Brought to Brilliance – from the collection of picture Documentation Center"

Images could be used only with the one-time consent of the Documentation Center Undemocratic Party Rally Grounds.
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