us-005578-irn47997-irn46987
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archival history: The cigarette card was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Martin Shallow III.
biographical history: Heinrich Hoffmann (1885-1957) was a German photographer and Nazi propagandist. The son and nephew of photographers, he worked in the Hoppé studio in London before setting up in Munich as a portraitist and photojournalist. His photograph of cheering crowds on 2 August 1914 unwittingly captured the young Adolf Hitler, an event which would later benefit Hoffmann's career. Drifting to the far right after the First World War and revolutionary events in Bavaria, he joined the Nazi Party in 1920 and convinced an initially camera-shy Hitler of photography's political value. Hoffman’s assistant, Eva Braun, became Hitler’s mistress in 1930. After 1933, his virtual monopoly of Hitler photographs, as ‘the man who sees the Führer for us’, made him one of the Third Reich's major profiteers. His scenes of carefully constructed intimacy, presenting his master, especially in the regime's early years, as a clean-living, nature-loving man of the people, were massively disseminated. After 1945, though claiming to have been a mere chronicler of events, he was fined and imprisoned. His extensive photo archive survives, including photographs of German political and religious figures, as well as actors, painters, and musicians.
physical characteristics and technical requirements: Small, rectangular paper card with a halftone photographic print with white borders treated to look like a glossy photograph. It has an image of a smiling, bareheaded Adolf Hitler in uniform holding a bouquet of roses and touching the chin of a young boy in a Hitler Youth uniform in the center with his back to the viewer. There are three men in uniform to the right. On the back is the title, the picture and group number, German fraktur text, and adhesive residue.
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conditions of use: No restrictions on use
date: approximately 1936
has or had holder: us-005578
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has or had some members with language: deu
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn46987
is or was included in: us-005578-irn47997
record resource extent: overall: Height: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm) | Width: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm)
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: Cigarette card, Jungdeutschland begrüßt den Führer im Wahlkampf, number 166, Group 64, series 15, Adolf Hitler - Pictures of the Life of the Führer, from about 1936. The card features a black and white photograph of a Hitler Youth member greeting Hitler and other Nazi Party officials during an election campaign stop. Cigarette cards were a popular collectible item in Germany beginning about 1920. Large albums with text, but no pictures, were published for each series and the cards were collected to be added as illustrations. The increasing popularity of the Nazi Party made them a desirable subject for a collectible card series. The album for this series has text and photo captions that tell the story of Hitler's life from his birth in 1899 to his 1933 appointment as Chancellor, and then Fuhrer, of Germany.
title: Germany’s youth welcomes the Leader in the election campaign Cigarette card photo of a smiling Hitler with roses and a Hitler Youth member