Today, the ‘LIFE’ magazine released some color photos of ’Adolf Hitler’ , which were never published before. It was interesting and sad, to go through the pics and get reminded of the horrific events of that era. Also, its interesting to know that the Germans were technologically way ahead, in those times. Maybe all these wars, dictators and economic recession pushed people to make great progress, technologically.
Regarding the pics, here’s a snippet of information, from ‘Life.com’:
Between 1936 and 1945, German photographer Hugo Jaeger was granted unprecedented access to Adolf Hitler, traveling and chronicling, in color, the Fuhrer and his confidants at small gatherings, public events, and, quite often, in private moments.
Hugo Jaeger, one of Hitler’s personal photographers, in 1970. Jaeger’s story — and the story of how LIFE came to own his photographs of Hitler — is nothing short of astonishing. In 1945, when the Allies were making their final push toward Munich, Jaeger found himself face to face with six American soldiers in a small town west of the city. During a search of the house where Jaeger was staying, the Americans found a leather suitcase in which Jaeger had hidden thousands of color photo transparencies. He knew he would be arrested (or worse) if the Americans discovered his film and his close connection to Hitler. He could never have imagined what happened next.
The American soldiers threw open the suitcase that held the Hitler images. Inside, they found a bottle of cognac that Jaeger had placed atop the transparencies. Elated, the soldiers proceeded to share the bottle with Jaeger and the owner of the house. The suitcase was forgotten.
After the Americans left, Jaeger packed the transparencies into 12 glass jars and buried them on the outskirts of town. In the years following the war, Jaeger occasionally returned to his multiple caches, digging them up, repacking, and reburying them. He finally retrieved the collection for good in 1955 — 2,000 transparencies, all of them, amazingly, still in good shape — stored them in a bank vault, and in 1965 sold them to LIFE. To date, only a fraction of the Jaeger collection has been published.
For further info and pics, check the link below:
Unpublished Photos Of Adolf Hitler, In Public And Private (LIFE.com)
