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Album of the Damned: Snapshots of the Third Reich by Paul Garson - Book review
At first sight, the snapshots seem ordinary: a baby in a carriage, a man reading at the table, two women smiling for the camera. But these dog-eared photos capture everyday life in Nazi Germany. In "Album of the Damned: Snapshots of the Third Reich," pieced by photographer Paul Garson, the baby is wearing his father's Nazi cap, the man is reading Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf and the women are in full military uniforms. Garson collected 400 photos, most never seen before, from private collections of old photo albums he bought through online auctions, capturing life on the home front of the Third Reich. Garson's 5-year undertaking cost him $25,000. [Buy at Amazon: US, UK, CA, DE, FR]     [ cjp.org :: 2008-09-10 :: Homefront: Daily life during World War II ]

Pictures of Leni Riefenstahl's cameraman Hans Ertl surface in Bolivia
A good-looking cameraman is standing on a diving board filming a diver as he jumps. This is just one of the photos of the 1936 Berlin Olympics brought out for the first time - a rare look into how the film Olympia was made. One of the most impressive sports films of all times, it was the part of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels's crusade to show the brilliance of the German Reich. The cameraman is Hans Ertl, the right-hand man and lover of Leni Riefenstahl. "My father knew Hitler well... Leni of course was his true love, he kept repeating this until the last days of his life," recalled his daughter Beatriz, who handed over these stored-away pictures.     [ bbc.co.uk :: 2008-09-10 :: Nazi Photos ]

Photos from the early days of SA and Nazi Party - thread at Axis History Forum
Axis History Forum thread has pictures from the early days of SA (Sturmabteilung) and NSDAP (Nazi Party, officially National Socialist German Workers' Party). Photographs include: Adolf Hitler and Ernst Röhm at Reichsparteitag 1933. Erich Ludendorff, Hitler and Ernst Röhm at the time of Hitlers trial 1924. Different SA-groups training. Julius Streicher posing...     [ forum.axishistory.com :: 2008-08-20 :: Nazi Party - NSDAP ]

330 largely-unknown full color images from the world war II
Of the hundreds of thousands of color photographs that were taken by American, British and German photographers during the World War II, many have been forgotten or were never published. A collection of these pictures has now been unearthed and collected by Der Spiegel. "Pictures of the Second World War," published by editor Michael Sontheimer, reveals 330 mostly color photos of the war that have so far not been given their public due. [Flash required to see online selection of photos]     [ spiegel.de :: 2008-07-20 :: Hitler Photos ]

3,000 aerial photographs reveal full destruction by allied bombers
A newly discovered collection of 3,000 aerial photos of Nazi Germany before and during the allied bombing campaign reveals the lost heritage. Experts say a wooden box full of negatives found in Kiel is "spectacular", "unique" and "inventory of 1940s Germany" - revealing how systematic the allied bombing policy was. The pictures, now digitalised, were ordered by the Nazis to help to rebuild German cities once Third Reich had conquered Europe. The photos, taken diagonally with special cameras from low-flying aircraft, offer detailed views of buildings. They focus on Germany's inner cities, which are shown in their full baroque and gothic grandness.     [ guardian.co.uk :: 2008-07-10 :: Culture and Architecture of Third Reich ]

The Auschwitz album: Photos reveal, Auschwitz was not hell for everyone
In June of 1945, after the war with Nazi Germany had ended, a U.S. Army officer coming to Frankfurt was told to search a place to live. He found an abandoned apartment - and an album of photographs. It had 31 pages, and 116 black-and-white pictures, showing Nazi officers: at a picnic, at shooting practice, at a long table with wine bottles and waiters, at a funeral where the coffins are wrapped with Nazi flags. No photos had ever shown Nazis at leisure at Auschwitz, but in the album Rudolf Hoess appears with Josef Mengele at a retreat called Solahütte, where also were young women - identified as Helferinnen ('helpers') by their Nazi uniforms.     [ telegraph.co.uk :: 2008-07-07 :: Auschwitz Birkenau ]

WW2 photos - Military Musem, Gellert Hill Citadel, Budapest, Hungary
Photographs from the military museum located in the World War II bunker inside the Gellert Hill citadel in Budapest, Hungary.     [ flickr :: 2008-05-13 :: World War II Photographs ]

Steve Nicklas acquired 5000 photos of Nazi Germany, Russia's war role
Archaeology professor Steve Nicklas was searching each face, wondering which belonged to a man he knew as "Alex." Nicklas had flown to a country in the former Soviet Union to meet Alex, to discuss Nicklas' interest in buying secret World War II photos that had been locked inside a government building since the end of the war. Alex's government, once a stronghold of the former Soviet Union, was withholding the photos from Germany... Now, Nicklas possesses 5,000 WWII photos: many of them never before published, including several quality pictures of Adolf Hitler and the high ranking nazis.     [ gainesvilletimes :: 2008-05-11 :: Nazi Photos ]

Photo collection of SS Daggers, Nazi Flags and other militaria
Collection of World War II memorabilia photographs (86 images), including SS daggers, Hitler Youth german helmets, nazi swastika flags and various firearms.     [ ws :: 2008-01-28 :: Nazi Daggers ]

Nazi reconnaissance photos taken by Luftwaffe before World War II
German reconnaissance photographs of the east coast of the UK taken before World War II have been put on display. The aerial views from Kent to Wick were stolen from a Luftwaffe base by a British commando towards the end of WW2. He kept them hidden before passing them to Archie Hill, who has decided to sell prints. The images were probably used to co-ordinate Luftwaffe bombing missions. The high quality spy pictures, taken from aircraft flying at 15,000ft, could also have helped planning for Operation Sea Lion - the Nazi invasion of Britain which was abandoned as Adolf Hitler turned his attention on the Eastern Front.     [ bbc :: 2007-10-26 :: Nazi Photos ]

2500 WWII photos by German soldiers on the Russian Front online
Original world war II photographs by German soldiers on the eastern front 1941-1945. Over 2500 WWII pictures of Wehrmacht, Waffen-SS, POWs, battle tanks...     [ webshots :: 2007-09-27 :: Operation Barbarossa - WWII Eastern Front ]

Photographs of Karl Höcker, adjutant to the Auschwitz commandant
Former United States Army intelligence officer donated photographs of Auschwitz, found more than 60 years ago in Nazi Germany, to US Holocaust Memorial Museum. There are only a small number of photos of the camp before its liberation in 1945. The museum received a package containing 16 cardboard pages, with photos pasted on both sides, and their significance became apparent: a scrapbook of the lives of Auschwitz's senior SS officers, maintained by Karl Höcker, the adjutant to the camp commandant. In all there are 116 pictures, beginning from June 21, 1944, of Höcker and the commandant of the camp Richard Baer, both in full SS regalia.     [ nytimes :: 2007-09-19 :: Nazi Photos ]

USHMM pictures of Reichsfuehrer-SS Heinrich Himmler, Gudrun Himmler
Photographs related to Reichsfuehrer-SS Heinrich Himmler (Margarete Himmler, Gudrun Himmler, in the company of Waffen-SS Armored Division Wiking chief SS-Brigadefuehrer and Major General Felix Steiner, etc) from the photo archives of USHMM.     [ ushmm :: 2007-04-11 :: Heinrich Himmler: Reichsfuhrer-SS ]

Angora - Nazi rabbit project by SS chief Heinrich Himmler
The bound volume covered in woven gray wool, titled "Angora," in the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections is chilling. It belonged to Heinrich Himmler, the chief of the SS in Nazi Germany. Himmler's "Angora" album, which he hid in his Alpine villa with his other papers near the end of World War 2, tells the story of the angora rabbit project. Photographs, charts and maps from Heinrich Himmler's "Angora" are now among the 25,000 WHS images that are on its site, and will be featured in an online gallery. The rabbits were raised for their warm fur, which was used for the linings of jackets for Luftwaffe pilots.     [ wpr.org :: 2007-02-09 :: Heinrich Himmler: Reichsfuhrer-SS ]

Photo album of Adolf Hitler's niece Angela "Geli" Raubal for sale
The photo album of Adolf Hitler's niece Angela "Geli" Raubal is up for sale and experts believe it could fetch more than 2,000 pounds. Experts believe many of the 35 intimate photographs were taken by Hitler himself. "Because of Hitler's kinky relationship with his young niece we have had enormous interest".     [ ukauction :: 2006-10-24 :: Nazi Relics: Personal items of leaders ]

Auction: Rare Photo Album of SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler
Manion's International Auction House has recently listed a rare photo album assembled by a witness to one of SS leader Heinrich Himmler's official wartime meetings with the command staff of the feared 2nd SS Panzer Division (Das Reich). The album provides a candid glimpse 'behind the scenes' at one of the Third Reich's most infamous personalities. It includes 38 original black and white photos chronicling the meeting. Himmler is clearly visible in about 90% of the shots. The album even includes a shot of him in a strange and rather jaunty pose, the caption detailing his 'good mood.'     [ infoZine :: 2006-01-23 :: Nazi Photos ]

Digitalized color photos - Nazi Art Project now Online
Thousands of colour photographs commissioned by Adolf Hitler are to be released on the internet at www.zi.fotothek.org, bringing back to life many of Germany's lost art treasures. Hitler, worried about damage being wrought by Allied bombers, ordered photographers to make records of frescoes in churches and palaces across Germany and occupied Europe. The decision, made after the defeat at Stalingrad in the winter of 1942-43, suggests that Hitler sensed that the war could no longer be won.     [ Times Online :: 2005-10-20 :: Nazi Photos ]

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