[HITLER ADOLF]: (1889-1945) Fuhrer of the Third Reich 1933-45. An interesting presentation album containing over 180 photographs by Ernst Baumann, the post-war prints (most approximately 7 x 5) depicting Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders as well as the Berghof, the Fuhrer's retreat in the Bavarian Alps, and with further photographs documenting life in Nazi Germany during the war and in its immediate aftermath, each neatly mounted to the pages of the album and many with small printed captions in German, the images including Hitler in various poses, Hermann Goring (participating in Curling, playing an accordion etc.), Dietrich Eckart, the Platterhof Hotel, the Kehlsteinhaus ('Eagle's Nest') and its tunnels, lift & interior, Eva Braun (with her Scottish Terrier dogs Negus and Stasi and a rabbit etc.), Martin Bormann, the gatehouse to the Berghof and other images of the residence in 1942, SS-Wach-Battalion officers marching and exercising with rifles and other guns, carrying out physical exercise, as well as various images depicting the destruction and ruins of the Eagle's Nest and other buildings, the tunnels of an air raid shelter below Obersalzberg (converted in 1968 as a reconstruction of Hitler's work space and Braun's apartment as a tourist 'attraction') etc. Signed and inscribed to the final page by Ernst Baumann and dated 11^th May 1978 in his hand. Contained in the original slipcase. About EX

 

Ernst Baumann (1906-1985) German photographer and publisher of postcards who worked as a war correspondent during World War II and was released from American captivity in 1947.