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Adolf Hitler: Among the Crowds

Worshipping Hitler

Worshipping Hitler

Between 1936 and 1945, German photographer Hugo Jaeger was granted virtually unlimited access to Adolf Hitler, earnestly chronicling, in color, the Fuhrer at public events and in private moments. (Pictured: Reichstag members salute Hitler at a session in Berlin's Kroll Opera House.)

In this photo: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Wilhelm Frick, Karl Donitz, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Rudolf Hess, Hermann Goering

Photo: Hugo Jaeger./Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Apr 28, 1939