Heinrich Hoffmann
German photographer, personal photographer of Adolf Hitler (1885-1957)
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Hitler's official photographer and the man who built the Führer's visual mythology. Hoffmann held the exclusive rights to every published image of Hitler, turning propaganda into a personal fortune and himself into a gatekeeper of the regime's public face.
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Born 12 September 1885, Hoffmann rose as a photographer and publisher in Munich, eventually positioning himself at the center of Nazi power. He documented Hitler obsessively, choreographing the images that sold the party as a mass movement and Hitler as a messianic figure. The Reich paid royalties on every reproduction, and by the war's end he was a millionaire. He was also an art dealer and collector who looted extensively from Jewish families. In 1945 the Allies classified him a major offender in art plunder, tried him for war profiteering, and sentenced him to ten years. Released in 1950 af…
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