![]() ![]() If the photograph is correct, then Hitler, almost alone in Europe, wore a toothbrush mustache in 1914, grew a big mustache during the war, and then went back to a toothbrush style after the war, none of which seems very likely. The practice of shaving mustaches down to a “toothbrush” shape seems to have been introduced during the war to allow men to wear gas masks more comfortably the fashion was unknown before 1914. Photographs of Hitler taken during the war show him with a large mustache, of the sort that was in fashion at the time. And intense scrutiny of newsreel footage has failed to spot Hitler among the crowd. Research has failed to turn up the original negative of the picture. However, many researchers claim Hitler’s photographer Hoffmann manipulated the image in order to feature the soon-to-be-dictator. “His face cannot deceive – it was him”.Įnlargement was first published in March 1932. “I only needed to search for a very short time, one standing there, yes, it’s him – his hair falls over the forehead”, Hoffmann once said. Hoffmann then dug out a glass picture negative he’d planned to throw away and found Hitler in the image. ![]() When Hoffmann was told by Adolf Hitler that he was there during the Declaration of War in 1914, Hoffman scoured and scrutinized every picture he had of that momentous day. Hoffmann, who was one of the founders and the main supplier of pictures for the Nazi paper, always claimed he had discovered Hitler in the photo by chance after the future Führer visited his studio in 1929. It was used countless times in newspapers, propaganda papers, biographies, and school books. The photo went on to become a favorite Nazi propaganda picture, appearing with captions such as “Adolf Hitler: A man of the People”. Hitler was superimposed to lend credibility to the image of the Nazi leader as a patriot and a man of the people. In the midst of the crowd stood with shining eyes – Adolf Hitler”. When on 1 August 1914 tens of thousands of deeply moved Munich citizens listened to the last notes of the band, suddenly the German anthem washed over the square. The caption read: “Adolf Hitler, the German patriot. On the day before the election of the Reich President, the Illustrierter Beobachter published the August 1914 picture with Hitler for the first time, with a magnifying-glass-like enlargement of his face. The photo was taken by Munich photographer Heinrich Hoffmann at a rally in support of the war against Russia in Munich’s Odeonsplatz on August 2, 1914. The original caption: “Adolf Hitler, the German patriot in the middle of the crowd stands with blazing eyes”. ![]()
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