Public celebrations at the Odeonsplatz in Munich upon the outbreak of war, with a cheerful Adolf H*tler in the crowd, August 2, 1914.
Public celebrations at the Odeonsplatz in Munich upon the outbreak of war, with a cheerful Adolf H*tler in the crowd, August 2, 1914. . Note: I've censored his name to avoid Facebook removing the post, thanks for understanding ๐ . I'm willing to bet that you've seen this famous photograph before of, allegedly, a 25-year-old Adolf H*tler in 1914. However, you most likely don't know the full backstory of its history. . The photograph was taken by German photographer Heinrich Hoffmann on August 2, 1914, today 110 years ago, at the Odeonsplatz in Munich, upon news of the German declaration of war on Russia. . However, the photograph was not published until July 30, 1932, a day before the German federal election. The photograph from August 1914 was published in the "Illustrierter Beobachter", a Nazi Party propaganda magazine, with their leader's face highlighted. Its caption read: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "Adolf H*tler, the German patriot. When on 1 August 1914 te...