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Adolf Hitler, Up Close
Between 1936 and 1945, German photographer Hugo Jaeger was granted unprecedented access to Adolf Hitler, traveling and chronicling, in color, the Fuhrer and his confidants at small gatherings, public events, and, quite often, in private moments. Here, and in several other galleries on LIFE, we now present never-before-published photographs from Jaeger's astonishing -- and chilling -- collection.



http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gall ... r-up-close

or see a slideshow gallery with more pics

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v393/ ... =slideshow

Seeing all the black & white pictures i kinda felt distanced from it all, but these pics seem to make it much more real, for me anyway.

nice find for wwii junkies like me

Mr.Ganji wrote:nice find for wwii junkies like me

+1, i'm also a WWII junkie, thankyou

Same here, Thank you for this great find. I really appreciate it.

hey guys no worries, its a pretty big release, there's aparantly 2,000 photoes, i forgot to add this quote into my post

After the Americans left, Jaeger packed the transparencies into 12 glass jars and buried them on the outskirts of town. In the years following the war, Jaeger occasionally returned to his multiple caches, digging them up, repacking, and reburying them. He finally retrieved the collection for good in 1955 -- 2,000 transparencies, all of them, amazingly, still in good shape -- stored them in a bank vault, and in 1965 sold them to LIFE. To date, only a fraction of the Jaeger collection has been published.

heroo wrote:

Mr.Ganji wrote:nice find for wwii junkies like me

+1, i'm also a WWII junkie, thankyou

+2

Wow.
Thanks for the link.

I'm not a WWII Junkie, but these photos are really interesting.

look at him and his rosy cheeks, makes me sick

awesome pics wow he had his own photographer? o.o
pretty sarcastic though, the LIFE label on the pics lol