[BITList] Remarkable Photographs

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same pix - completely different tale...................................

hitler did not have an american photographer in his entourage. hoffman and jeager were hitler's personal photographers.
Rollieflex negative is square 6 cm x 6 cm - not  6" x 9". additionally, the small negative size would need to be greatly enlarged and cropped for magazine use - producing a grainy photo lacking clear detail.
IMHO these pix were not taken with a Rollieflex.
the nurse bit is a fairy tale.
Life magazine stopped publishing in 2000 - not early 1970's.

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From: John Feltham 
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 8:46 PM
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Subject: [BITList] Remarkable Photographs




                  You may have seen these but there worth another look . The size of the crowds in those days were stunning. 

                  These pictures were taken by a Life photographer between 1939 and 1940 in Berlin and were lost for over 50 years because the American photographer disappeared at the beginning of the war, along with his rolliflex camera. Shown here are the originals (Used at that time in the production of magazines). The majority are 6" X 9". They were found by a nurse in a Berlin hospital , who kept them put away during all these years. After her death her daughter returned them to the current editors, who retain the copyrights to Life magazine, which has not been published since the early '70s. 

                       
                       
                 




            Never-before-seen photos of Adolf Hitler taken by personal photographer Hugo Jaeger revealed
            BY Christina Boyle 
            DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER 

            Updated Friday, June 5th 2009, 3:16 PM 

             
            Hugo Jaeger/Life.com
            Photo Courtesy of Life.com. Hitler salutes the German troops in Adolf Hitler Platz in Nuremberg, 1938, in this color photo by Hugo Jaeger. 
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            It's a photo of Adolf Hitler the world has never seen. And there are dozens more.

            A full-color shot of the genocidal madman, his brown uniform adorned with blood-red bandanas covered with swaztikas, chillingly shows the hold he had on his murderous Nazi forces.

            From a passing car, he gives his men the sickening "Heil Hitler" salute.

            That the in-focus photo is in stunning, sharp color - grainy black and white images are nothing new - makes it all the more real that this madman once tried to conquer a continent and exterminate millions of innocents.

            The picture is one of dozens never-published images taken by Hitler's personal photographer and now online at LIFE.com.

            Four online galleries show the Fuhrer and his closest advisors at small gatherings, public events and in private moments between 1936 and 1945.

            Photographer Hugo Jaeger was granted unparalleled access to Hilter and traveled with him for years in the run up to, and during, the second World War.

            The images almost never made the light of day.

            In 1945, when the Allies pushed towards Munich, the photographer found himself face-to-face with six American soldiers and feared he would be arrested when they found the thousands of color negatives he had hidden in a leather suitcase.

            Instead, the soldiers threw open the case to discover a bottle of cognac, which they eagerly opened and shared with Jaeger, ignoring the transparencies beneath. 

            To preserve the photos, he buried them in 12 glass jars on the outskirts of Munich, returning over the years to check on them, repack and rebury them.

            In 1955, Jaeger finally retrieved all 2,000 transparencies and stored them in a bank vault before selling them to LIFE magazine in 1965.

            As the 65th anniversary of D-Day approaches, LIFE.com has decided to publish the snaps, which give a new fascinating - and frightening - look at the life of the man behind the Nazi regime and the Holocaust.


           





     

     






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