Rare color photos of Hitler found

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... ge_id=1811

It surprises me that they've withstood the test of time, colours in colour photographs don't usually survive that long.

He doesn't look very impressive...

He looks a little starved, to me. Are those his kids, and were they going to make him a meal?

Oh, yeah. He never had kids of his own.

He looks the very model of the master-race there, doesn't he?

Does that girl on the left have brown hair and brown eyes? Very un-Aryan!

Wow - look how emaciated he is...

It also looks like he mastered the tactic of the photo-op.

This photo was probably taken during the last years of the war when things were turning on him. During this time he was using all sorts of drugs, thatll mess ya up coupled with the stress of knowing that it is very likly you will loose the war and have the whole world want you dead.

I think he died when he was 56 of suicide, right before their is video of him trembling (possibly the result of advanced parkensons) he was hunched over and looked quite old for his age. I spend a while reading up on WW2 in collage and saw plenty of colored photos and vids, very interesting and its amazing how much of it was censored by the nazis for a variety of reasons.

They used to paint over pictures back then to colorize black and white ones. Look at that flawless skin. He must use Proactiv.

Hate to be the turd in the water pipe, but I think this photo is a fake. A few things stand out for me.

If you read the article this picture was allegedly taken in 1939, not late in the war. Hitler started going noticeably downhill after Stalingrad in 1943. He looked reasonably healthy and vigorous in 1939. He certainly wasn't slope shouldered and frail.

Hitler's height was a solid 5-8. Looks a bit undersized here in relation to the height of the children.

Hitler's head looks oversized in comparison to his body, suggesting a cut and paste. Its color quality also looks different from that of the rest of the photo.

In the hundreds of photos taken of Hitler up to 1939, try to find another one that shows such sloped shoulders and such a fragile frame.

Hitler is wearing the uniform of the Chancellor and National Leader, as opposed to his party or military uniform. The piping on his cap and the cap cords should be gold, not silver. Silver is for officers, gold is for general officers and up. Also, the brown cap band has a silver army officer's cockade on it. There shouldn't be a cockade at all, but if there were it would be gold as well. There's no suggestion made that this could be a "colorized" or painted photo. This is offered as a genuine color film photograph.

This is the only color photo offered in the Daily Mail article that hasn't been seen before. All the others are well known. The ones at official events were taken by Hitler's personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann. The casual shots at the Berghof are from Eva Braun. By 1939 (by 1936 really), only Hoffmann would be taking posed photos of Hitler in his official capacity. Hitler was notoriously image conscious. Hoffmann would never have taken such an unflattering photo of him. The photo is set up as a propaganda shot. Hitler liked to be photographed with children and animals because it conveyed a certain image. Bearing that in mind, Hitler's personal appearance here and the setting don't jibe as they present contradictory images. Poor propaganda.

Having said all that, can you guess one of my areas of highly focused and obsessive knowledge?

amazin' what they can do with Photoshop nowadays, eh?.. Look at the shadows around the hands; they seem awfully sharp compared to the rest of the scene. The ears are fairly bright off the back of the 'room', which is pretty dark. I think it's a cut-and-paste job, mates..

I've seen pictures of that era, and they aren't this vibrant, or crisp-looking. Color photography was expensive (but hey, if you run an entire country, you're good for it..

springtime, for Hitler, and Germany...

I think the kids were dinner...

Is it just me or do Adolf's legs look way too short in comparison to the rest of his body
Also, it looks like pictures of each child have been photoshopped into the photo. The light seems to be coming onto each child from different angles.

is that a Nike logo on the kid's sneaker?

I dunno I think hitler Looks kinda Sexy in this photo

Also I think it's fake it's actually mattheW perry aka chandler from FRIENDS

is it a painting?

look at the girl with the blue hood. her face doesn't look real