The Führer and his buildings: picture documents Miniature"button boo" issued for charitable contributions by the Winter-hilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes

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. 

The book was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by Carolyn Buser, the daughter of Jerome S. Buser. 

The Führer and his buildings: picture documents Miniature"button boo" issued for charitable contributions by the Winter-hilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes 

overall: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) 

Miniature"button boo" printed by the Nazi German government and given as a token gift to those who had donated to the Winter-hilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes. The booklet could be worn on coat buttons as a sign that the wearer had donated to the charity. 

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Miniature Nazi propaganda book illustrated with bw photographs of Hitler at various locations, looking at plans and models, etc. There is a hole punched in the back cover with a black string attached.