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Adolf Hitler 1889-1945
Adolf Hitler 1889-1945
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Hitler dies in the Chancellery
From The Guardian archive, Wednesday 2 May 1945
https://www.theguardian.com/news/1945/may/02/
Eva Braun 1912-1945
Hitler/Jaeger File
Eva Braun, date and location unknown.
Location: Germany
Date taken: 1939
Photographer: Hugo Jaeger http://www.life.com/image/ugc1000272/in-gallery/27022
Hugo Jaeger was one of Hitler's personal photographers.
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Hitler’s window, Eagles Nest, Bavaria, 1947
Photograph: Tony Vaccaro
Dark days and starry nights: Tony Vaccaro – in pictures The Pennsylvania-born photographer Michael A ‘Tony’ Vaccaro is best known for the powerful images he took in Europe during and after the second world war. Later, he won acclaim for his work on popular US fashion, travel and lifestyle magazines G Fri 7 Sep 2018 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/sep/07/
A bust of Adolf Hitler lies amid the ruins of the Reich Chancellery in 1945.
Photograph: Reg Speller/Getty Images
From the buried bunker, Hitler’s ghost still haunts Berlin’s psyche, 70 years on As the anniversary of the Nazi leader’s death approaches, there is a divide between the wish to avoid the shameful past and a need to acknowledge it G Saturday 25 April 2015 22.25 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/25/
An unwell-looking Adolf Hitler in July 1944.
Photograph: ullsteinbild/Getty Images
Anglonautes' note: this picture is cropped. See uncropped photo below.
High Hitler: how Nazi drug abuse steered the course of history G Sunday 25 September 2016 10.00 BST Last modified on Monday 6 February 2017 14.09 GMT
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Hermann Göring with Adolf Hitler (left) and Benito Mussolini (back) at Wolf’s Lair in 1944.
Photograph: Ullstein bild Dtl/Getty Images
Five skeletons found under Wolf’s Lair home of Hermann Göring in Poland Amateur archaeologists discover remains missing hands and feet at former Nazi military headquarters G Tue 30 Apr 2024 18.48 CEST Last modified on Wed 1 May 2024 23.27 CEST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/30/
The young fighters of the Hitler Youth were caught in Hitler’s hypnotic grip.
Photograph: ullstein bild Dtl./Getty
WWII: eighty years on, the world is still haunted by a catastrophe foretold G Sun 1 Sep 2019 09.00 BST Last modified on Sun 1 Sep 2019 09.15 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/01/
Germania’s Great Hall was designed by Hitler and his chief architect, Albert Speer, to be the largest covered space in the world and the centrepiece of the Third Reich’s capital.
Photograph: Interfoto/Alamy Stock Photo
Story of cities #22: how Hitler's plans for Germania would have torn Berlin apart G Thursday 14 April 2016 07.30 BST Last modified on Thursday 14 April 2016 07.31 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/14/
‘The embodiment of the German soul’ … Himmler presents Allach figurines on Hitler’s birthday in 1944.
Photograph: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Heinrich Hoffman
Figurines in Dachau - Edmund de Waal on the Nazis’ love of porcelain G Friday 18 September 2015 14.00 BST Last modified on Saturday 19 September 2015 00.01 BST
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Hitler working out the offensive against Stalingrad.
Photograph: Mondadori Portfolio/Getty Images
Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman review – one of the great novels of the 20th century G Mon 3 Jun 2019 07.01 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/03/
Hitler/Jaeger File
Hitler's 54th birthday; the Philharmonie.
Location: Berlin, Germany
Date taken: April 20, 1942
Photograph: Hugo Jaeger
Hugo Jaeger was one of Hitler's personal photographers. http://www.life.com/image/ugc1000272/in-gallery/27022
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Hitler declares war on the United States, Dec. 11, 1941.
Photograph: Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images
The Decision That Cost Hitler the War NYT November 19, 2021
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Hitler announces the declaration of war against the United States to the Reichstag on 11 December 1941
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Aloisia V
One of the thousands of victims of the Nazi regime's programme to kill mentally ill people was a relative of Adolf Hitler, two historians said yesterday.
The woman, identified only as Aloisia V, was 49 when she was gassed to death on December 6 1940 in Hartheim castle near the northern Austrian city of Linz, Timothy Ryback said.
Mr Ryback, an American who now lives in Salzburg and heads the Obersalzberg Institute in Berchtesgaden, Germany, said the details surrounding the woman's death surfaced last week, after Obersalzberg archivist Florian Beierl gained access to her medical file at a Vienna medical institution where she had been treated.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jan/19/
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October 23, 1940
France Hendaye
Hitler meets Franco
Smiling German ldr. Adolf Hitler (R) shaking hands w. Spanish leader Generalissimo Francisco Franco (2L) during Hitler's only official meeeting w. Franco.
Location: Hendaye, France
Date taken: October 23, 1940
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‘My grandad joined the Nazi party early, and volunteered to fight in 1940.’
An enthusiastic Berlin crowd react to a speech by Adolf Hitler in September 1939.
Photograph: Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images
My grandfather was a Nazi. I’ve seen why we need the EU
Since world war two, there have been three generations of Germans living in peace. That peace is taken for granted G Wed 20 Feb 2019 06.00 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/20/
Hitler/Jaeger File
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler saluting leaders & men of the Legion Condor, German Luftwaffe troops which fought alongside Spanish Nationalist troops in the Spanish Civil war, during a rally held in their honor upon their return.
Location: Berlin, Germany
Date taken: June 6, 1939
Photograph: Hugo Jaeger
Hugo Jaeger was one of Hitler's personal photographers. http://www.life.com/image/ugc1000272/in-gallery/27022
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Hitler/Jaeger File
(L-R) Ferdinand Porsche, Adolf Hitler and Robert Ley with Hitler's 50th birthday gift, the Volkswagen Beetle.
Location: Berlin, Germany
Date taken: April 20, 1939
Photograph: Hugo Jaeger
Hugo Jaeger was one of Hitler's personal photographers. http://www.life.com/image/ugc1000272/in-gallery/27022
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Hitler/Jaeger File
L to R: Professor Morrel, wife of Gauletier [ sic, correct spelling: gauleiter ] Forster and Hitler at Hitler's Obersalzburg house.
Location: Obersalzburg, Germany
Date taken: 1939
Photograph: Hugo Jaeger
Hugo Jaeger was one of Hitler's personal photographers. http://www.life.com/image/ugc1000272/in-gallery/27022
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Hitler's 50th birthday April 20, 1939
Hitler/Jaeger File
Hitler receives model of Condor airplane as a 50th birthday gift from flight Captain Bauer.
Far R: Dr. Karl Brandt.
Location: Berlin, Germany
Date taken: April 20, 1939
Photograph: Hugo Jaeger
Hugo Jaeger was one of Hitler's personal photographers. http://www.life.com/image/ugc1000272/in-gallery/27022
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30 January 1939
Hitler's 'prophecy' speech to the Reichstag
'In the course of my life I have very often been a prophet, and have usually been ridiculed for it.
During the time of my struggle for power, it was in the first instance the Jewish race that received my prophecies with laughter - when I said that I would one day take over the leadership of the State, and with it that of the whole nation, and that I would then, among many other things, settle the Jewish problem.
I think that for some time now they have been laughing on the other side of their face (laughter).
Today I will once more be a prophet.
If the international Jewish financiers, inside and outside Europe, succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevisation of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!'
On the sixth anniversary of his rise to power, the Führer provided a horrifying resolution to the 'Jewish problem'.
In this clip he made a prophecy that a world war would result in the annihilation of all European Jews.
The audio has been reproduced by courtesy of Stiftung Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv in Frankfurt, Germany.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/genocide/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/genocide/
June 1938
Adolf Hitler ordered Munich's main synagogue to be demolished in June 1938
The synagogue was one of the first in Germany to be torn down during Hitler's rule, authorities say.
It had been a center of Jewish life and a major Munich landmark.
The massive building was designed by prominent German architect Albert Schmidt and opened in 1887.
It had more than 1,500 seats and served as the city's main synagogue, Purin says.
And it had been in use for barely a half-century when Hitler ordered its demolition in June 1938 — months before Kristallnacht (or the November Pogrom) wrought the destruction of hundreds of synagogues across the country.
Purin says two main reasons explain why this particular synagogue was one of just a small handful razed so early.
For one, the Nazi party, which was founded and headquartered in Munich, simply didn't want such a huge synagogue there.
"The synagogue was very close to a main art gallery with a restaurant where Hitler liked to have dinner when he was in Munich," Purin says.
"And ... he had to look out at the synagogue, [which] he disliked."
Hitler deemed the structure an eyesore and personally ordered its removal, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported at the time.
It also served as a "test" for Kristallnacht, to see how the German public would react to the destruction of a synagogue, according to Purin.
There was no reaction, he said.
The Nazi movement was also targeting Catholic and Protestant churches, he added, and Hitler had ordered the demolition of a Protestant church around the same time, which prompted considerable backlash.
"And so they saw it's quite difficult to start demolishing churches, but no problem with demolishing synagogues," he said.
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Chamberlain (right) shakes hands with Mussolini after signing the Munich Agreement while Hitler and other European leaders look on, 30 September 1938.
[ Far left: Hermann Göring (1893–1946) ]
Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS
From the archive, 20 December 1938: Chamberlain's reply to Hitler - still waiting for commitment to peace G Saturday 20 December 2014 05.30 GMT
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/20/
Neville Chamberlain [ left ] shakes hands with Adolf Hitler eight days before signing the Munich agreement.
Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images
Molotov-Ribbentrop: why is Moscow trying to justify Nazi pact? Exhibition about Soviet-Nazi treaty, signed on 23 August 1939, seeks to turn spotlight on west’s behaviour in 1930s G Fri 23 Aug 2019 07.17 BST Last modified on Fri 23 Aug 2019 10.14 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/23/
Adolf Hitler at the head of a convoy through Sudetenland, October 1938.
Photograph: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images
Appeasing Hitler by Tim Bouverie review – the road to war G Fri 5 Apr 2019 07.30 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/05/
Adolf Hitler at a Nuremberg rally.
[ Left: Rudolf Hess (1894-1987) ]
Photograph: Hulton Deutsch Corbis via Getty Images
May I have a word… about Hitler’s British traitors A new book sheds light not only on Second World War spies and saboteurs but on the delightful vocabulary of the time G Sun 5 Aug 2018 06.00 BST Last modified on Tue 7 Aug 2018 15.21 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/commentisfree/2018/aug/05/
Hitler watches the Olympic Flame before the start of the 1936 Olympic Games.
Photograph: IOC Olympic Museum /Allsport
Berlin 1936 by Oliver Hilmes review – Hitler’s Olympics Most visitors were dazzled by the 1936 games. This lightweight study dwells not on the dark side, but on the glitz, glamour and gossip G Thu 22 Feb 2018 09.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 6 Mar 2018 23.19 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/22/
August 1936
Herr Hitler opens the Berlin Olympics
From the Guardian archive, 3 August 1936
Suddenly a forest of arms shot out, and the German spectators broke into a deafening roar of applause
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2012/aug/03/
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Adolf Hitler inspects Nazi troops, Germany, 1935.
Photograph: Print Collector/Getty Images
Dutch queen planned deal with Nazis to help rescue Belgian king Queen Wilhelmina tried to broker pact via Vatican for Leopold III, war diaries reveal G Tue 30 Apr 2019 12.49 BST Last modified on Tue 30 Apr 2019 13.41 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/30/
Adolf Hitler thanks Rudolf Hess for his service at a 1934 Nazi convention in Nuremberg.
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His Trilogy Explored the Nazi Era. Now He Looks at the People Behind It. In “Hitler’s People,” the renowned historian Richard J. Evans takes a biographical approach to the Third Reich. NYT August 14, 2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/14/
Adolf Hitler and Nazi youth leader Baldur von Schirach inspect Hitler youth at the Nuremberg rally in 1934.
Photograph: Ullstein bild Dtl./Getty Images
WWII: eighty years on, the world is still haunted by a catastrophe foretold G Sun 1 Sep 2019 09.00 BST Last modified on Sun 1 Sep 2019 09.15 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/01/
Adolf Hitler arrives in Berchtesgaden, in the Bavarian Alps, in 1934.
Photograph: AP
Nein! by Paddy Ashdown review – the Germans who stood up to Hitler
Riveting new detail is added to the story of the men and women who lost their lives trying to stop the Führer, in the final book by Ashdown, who died on Saturday G Sun 23 Dec 2018 07.00 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/dec/23/
Hindenburg's Successor
From the Guardian archive, 3 August 1934
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2009/aug/03/
Formal portrait of German Chancellor (fuhrer) Adolf Hitler on his forty-fifth birthday.
Location: Germany
Date taken: April 20, 1934
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Berlin 1933 – The Road to Dictatorship
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/30/
From the Guardian archive, 22 March 1933:
Trotsky on the new Germany
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2011/mar/22/
31 January 1933
Hitler forms his first government
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/30/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/jan/31/
Hitler with German president Paul von Hindenburg in 1933.
Photograph: AP
Address Unknown: the great, forgotten anti-Nazi book everyone must read G August 23, 2019
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/23/
1933
Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler comes to power on a programme to reverse
He withdraws from the disarmament conference and leaves the League of Nations. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwtwo/overview_britain_1918_1945_03.shtml - broken link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/sceptred_isle/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1933/nov/13/
Hitler outside party headquarters in 1931.
The biographers Peter Longerich and Brendan Simms have new books about his rise to power.
Photograph: Associated Press
Revisiting Hitler, in a New Authoritarian Age With nationalism and anti-Semitism on the rise around the world, two big new biographies look at the Nazi leader’s march to power. NYT Published Sept. 29, 2019 Updated Sept. 30, 2019, 11:17 a.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/29/
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Hitler/Jaeger File
Hitler and admirers. Probably in Munich.
Location: Munich, Germany
Date taken: 1930
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/5233244e70ad4a07.html
Adolf Hitler (looking angry) leaving Leusberg Prison, where he wrote Mein Kampf.
Location: Germany
Date taken: 1924
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1925
Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’
Éditer Hitler : comment désarmer le passé ? France Culture 23 mai 2021
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1945, en Allemagne. Devant les caméras de la propagande de guerre, des soldats américains fondent les plaques qui servaient à imprimer Mein Kampf.
Vingt ans plus tôt, le chef nazi Adolf Hitler mettait en circulation son texte d’une violence rare, dans lequel il dévoilait son programme.
Mein Kampf contient-il un poison qu’on ne saurait conjurer ?
La question a ressurgi lorsque les droits du livre sont tombés dans le domaine public, le 1er janvier 2016, après avoir cessé d'être détenus par le seul État régional allemand de Bavière, qui les avait reçus des forces d'occupation américaines au lendemain de la Seconde guerre mondiale.
Ce 2 juin, une maison d’édition française, Fayard, mettra en circulation un imposant volume de 1 000 pages, à la mise en page réduite au strict minimum.
Une version de "Mein Kampf" assortie d’un important appareil critique et dont le titre, “Historiciser le mal”, laisse bien comprendre qu’il s’agit plus d’un travail universitaire que d’une simple réédition.
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/01/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/02/
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/03/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/26/
Inside minimum security prison at Fortress of Landsberg are (L) Adolf Hitler & (2R) visitor Rudolf Hess w. other unident. prisoners.
Location: Germany
Date taken: 1924
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Alfred Rosenberg, left, with Hitler and Friedrich Weber, right, during the Munich Putsch in 1923.
Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images
Tracking an Elusive Diary From Hitler’s Inner Circle NYT MARCH 30, 2016
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TITLE: [Adolf Hitler, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left]
MEDIUM: 1 photographic. print.
CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1923 Oct. 30.
NOTES: By Bain News Service, New York City. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). DIGITAL ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b43939 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b43939
Nov. 9, 1923
Hitler is arrested after trying to stage a coup, the farcical “Beer Hall Putsch,” in his first bid to take power
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Germany
the Dolchstosslegende, or stab-in-the-back myth.
amid the implosions of Imperial Germany, powerful conservatives who led the country into war refused to accept that they had lost.
Their denial gave birth to arguably the most potent and disastrous political lie of the 20th century — the Dolchstosslegende, or stab-in-the-back myth.
Its core claim was that Imperial Germany never lost World War I.
Defeat, its proponents said, was declared but not warranted.
It was a conspiracy, a con, a capitulation — a grave betrayal that forever stained the nation.
That the claim was palpably false didn’t matter.
Among a sizable number of Germans, it stirred resentment, humiliation and anger.
And the one figure who knew best how to exploit their frustration was Adolf Hitler.
In 1918, Germany was staring at defeat.
The entry of the United States into the war the year before, and a sequence of successful counterattacks by British and French forces, left German forces demoralized.
Navy sailors went on strike.
They had no appetite to be butchered in the hopeless yet supposedly holy mission of Kaiser Wilhelm II and the loyal aristocrats who made up
the Supreme Army Command. and demands for a republic grew.
On Nov. 9, 1918, Wilhelm abdicated, and two days later the army leaders signed the armistice.
It was too much to bear for many:
Military officers, monarchists and right-wingers spread the myth that if it had not been for political sabotage by Social Democrats and Jews back home, the army would never have had to give in.
The deceit found willing supporters.
“Im Felde unbesiegt” — “undefeated on the battlefield” — was the slogan with which returning soldiers were greeted.
Newspapers and postcards depicted German soldiers being stabbed in the back by either evil figures carrying the red flag of socialism or grossly caricatured Jews.
By the time of the Treaty of Versailles the following year, the myth was already well established.
The harsh conditions imposed by the Allies, including painful reparation payments, burnished the sense of betrayal.
It was especially incomprehensible that Germany, in just a couple of years, had gone from one of the world’s most respected nations
to its biggest loser. about the Dolchstosslegende is this:
It did not grow weaker after 1918 but stronger.
In the face of humiliation and unable or unwilling to cope with the truth, many Germans embarked on a disastrous self-delusion:
The nation had been betrayed, but its honor and greatness could never be lost.
And those without a sense of national duty and righteousness — the left and even the elected government of the new republic — could never be legitimate custodians of the country.
In this way, the myth was not just the sharp wedge that drove the Weimar Republic apart.
It was also at the heart of Nazi propaganda, and instrumental in justifying violence against opponents.
The key to Hitler’s success was that, by 1933, a considerable part of the German electorate had put the ideas embodied in the myth — honor, greatness, national pride — above democracy.
The Germans were so worn down by the lost war, unemployment and international humiliation that they fell prey to the promises of a “Führer” who cracked down hard on anyone perceived as “traitors,” leftists and Jews above all.
The stab-in-the-back myth was central to it all.
When Hitler became chancellor on Jan. 30, 1933, the Nazi newspaper Völkischer Beobachter wrote that “irrepressible pride goes through the millions” who fought so long to “undo the shame of 9 November 1918.”
Germany’s first democracy fell.
Without a basic consensus built on a shared reality, society split into groups of ardent, uncompromising partisans.
And in an atmosphere of mistrust and paranoia, the notion that dissenters were threats to the nation steadily took hold.
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Hitler's First War by Thomas Weber - review
Exposing the lies of Hitler's early life
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/oct/04/
Adolf Hitler, far left, with fellow soldiers during the first world war.
Photograph: Getty
The Tristan Chord by Glenn Skwerer review – Hitler’s path to evil
A fictionalised account of the Führer’s early life brilliantly captures the banality of the man G Mon 13 Aug 2018 08.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/13/
Adolf Hitler (?) in crowd outside the Odeonplatz during the mobilization of the German army for WWI.
Location: Munich, Germany
Date taken: August 2, 1914
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Adolf Hitler, la photo trop parfaite
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Il s’agit sans doute de la plus célèbre photographie du début de
la guerre. Une foule dense se presse sur l’Odeonsplatz, à Munich, le 2 août
1914, pour célébrer l’entrée en guerre de l’Allemagne contre la Russie, déclarée
la veille. Dans un cercle à la droite de l’image, un agrandissement permet de
bien distinguer l’une de ces figures enthousiastes : on reconnaît la moustache
et la mèche caractéristiques d’Adolf Hitler, sujet autrichien de 25 ans, qui va
bientôt s’engager au 16e régiment d’infanterie de réserve bavarois pour ce qu’il
décrira ensuite comme l’expérience la plus exaltante de son existence. Le cliché
semble ainsi fixer la rencontre parfaite d’un destin individuel, celui du futur
Führer, et d’un sentiment collectif, celui de l’unité nationale exaltée, au tout
début du conflit.
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