From 1936 until the end of the WWII, Hugo Jaeger worked as a personal photographer for Adolf Hitler and took color photos. Here are his photos from Dunkirk.
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Dresden, 1945
Over 2 days in February 1945, 3,900 tons of explosives were dropped over Dresden. Thirteen square miles and 100,000+ civilians were annihilated. Richard Peter explored the city devastated by the firebombing.
Back to the Middle Ages, 1938 | Picture Post
In November 1938, when many in the British establishment were still seeking to accommodate Hitler, Picture Post published a photoessay harshly denouncing the Nazis.
Jean Leslie (1923 – 2012)
Jean Leslie, MI5 secretary whose photograph may or may not have changed the outcome of […]
Hitler’s Little Jig, 1940
On June 21, 1940, Hitler received France’s surrender in the same railroad car in which Germany had signed the 1918 armistice and danced.
The End of the Thousand-Year Reich
As the Second World War came to a close, a wave of suicides swept Berlin and […]
Jesse Owens
Hitler used the 1936 Olympics as a propaganda tool, inadvertently creating the modern Games, complete […]
Hitler in 1914
The above photo showed Adolf Hitler in the huge crowd which heard the announcement of […]
The Man Who Never Was
Early morning on the 1st of May 1943, a Spanish fisherman discovered a corpse clothed […]
Lee Miller in Hitler’s Bathtub
Lee Miller, covering WWII for Vogue teamed up with the American photographer David E. Scherman, […]