Adolf Hitler reviews the sailors and officers of the pre-dreadnought battleship Schleswig-Holstein, which fired the first shots of WWII, circa Summer 1939.

Nazi dignitaries aboard

Walter Frentz (1907-2004), cameraman/photographer, shoots movies of Hitler and his entourage at the Fuhrer's main headquarters in France in France; May-June 1940.
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Hitler and his entourage

The first official photograph of Hermann Wilhelm Göring, (1893 - 1946) after promotion to Reichsmarschall; July 19, 1940.

Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring

The Führer in the company of high ranking German officers, visit the troops and are treated for lunch in the field. Date and location not known.

Visiting the troops

Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini review Italian sailors aboard the battleship Conte Di Cavour during the former's (Hitler) visit to Naples, Italy; 5 May 1938.

Review of Italian sailors

Adolf Hitler salutes Wehrmacht troops marching into Poland; September 1939. 

Onward to conquest

Dietl in Namsos with other german soldiers and high ranked members

General Dietl in Namsos, Norway

Colonel General Alfred Jodl, Chief of Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command, gives Adolf Hitler an impromptu  situation briefing.

Informing the Führer

Not the usual attire. Adolf Hitler wearing a cape.

Windy day

Albert Speer (1905-1981) Reich Architect and later Armament Minister, shows Adolf Hitler his proposed plans for the future Berlin.



Will the Führer approve?

Joachim von Ribbentrop (left), was Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany from 1938 until 1945. 
Rudolf Hess (right), was a German politician and a leading member of the Nazi Party of Nazi Germany. Appointed Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler in 1933, Hess served in that position until 1941, when he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with the United Kingdom during World War II. 

Ribbentrop and Hess

Admiral Doenitz’s personal representative at Hitler’s Headquarters, Vice Admiral Foss (right) testifies and identifies Goebbels’s corpse.

Goebbels’s corpse

Adolf Hitler at the Berghof residence in the Bavarian Alps; early April 1944. 

At the Berghof

The Führer, Adolf Hitler is seen talking with a couple of young members of the Hitlerjugend; no place or date known.  

Present meets the future

During a journey to different parts of the Eastern front, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini visited the citadel of Brest-Litovsk (Fortress), USSR, accompanied by German and Italian military dignitaries; August 26, 1941.
  Behind Hitler's right shoulder is Gen. Alfred Jodl, behind his left shoulder is Field Marshal Albert Kesselring. At the center, looking toward Mussolini is Gen. Wilhelm Keitel. 

Visit to Brest-Litovsk

Adolf Hitler and Major General Erwin Rommel stop by at a Wehrmacht field kitchen in the city of Tomaszów Mazowiecki in central Poland; 1939.

Visit a field kitchen

Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring and Baldur von Schirrach at the Berghof. The man, second from left is not identified.
The Berghof was Adolf Hitler's home in the Obersalzberg of the Bavarian Alps near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany. 
 

Big Three at the Berghof

Adolf Hitler meets and greets the German servicemen at the airfield in Uman. Hitler and Italian leader Benito Mussolini arrived by plane with an inspection check of German and Italian troops in central Ukraine; 1941.


Visit by Hitler and Mussolini

Adolf Hitler visits a group of the "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" (his personal bodyguard) Division, west of Warsaw, Poland, near the Vistula river.

Visiting the AHLD

Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop (second from right, facing) arrives at the Berghof, Hitler's residence, on the Obersalzberg mountain near Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps. 

High ranking visitors

An unidentified smiling little boy is walking in front of a group of Nazi dignitaries; some of them are recognizable: in the middle, the Führer, to his left,  Hermann Göring, between them Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, etc. No date or location known. 

Follow the future Leader

Hitler with some of his SS-Begleitkommando (household) command staff at the Wolf’s Lair in East Prussia. 

The Führer with staff

A privately taken photo of Hitler visiting a labor battalion in Walserberg, Austria (few miles west of Salzburg). No date available.


The Führer pays a visit

On this day..6th March 1945.

 Dutch resistance hijack a truck carrying food, a much needed basic after the hunger winter of 44.
 Unfortunately a passenger in the truck was the SS Commander in Holland, Lt. Gen. Hanns Rauter.
 Rauter was shot but not killed. For his injury and humiliation he had 263 Dutchmen executed. This was one of the despicible acts he carried out whilst Commander. 
 After the war he was tried in The Hague, found guilty of crimes against humanity and was executed by firing squad.

http://nyctimetraveler.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/ww2-mar-6-1945dutch-resistance-ambushes.html?m=1
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Lt. Gen. Hanns Rauter

Adolf Hitler pays a visit to not a wounded combat soldier, but a most likely important individual, perhaps someone injured during his assassination attempt. - No information available.

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