62 Photos to put Adolf Hitler in perspective

Adolf Hitler, German Chancellor and leader of the Nazi poses for a portrait

German leader Adolf Hitler enjoys a quiet picnic between meetings, circa 1933.

Adolf Hitler and Ursula Schneider, daughter of Herta Schneider, a close friend of Eva Braun's childhood, in Berghof, Berchtesgaden, Germany, 1942. Herta Schneider and her children spent a great deal of time in Hitler's residence.

Adolf Hitler on the porch of a rustic hut, circa 1930.

Hitler visiting Finland on June 4, 1942, and from left to right, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (Chief of Defense of the Finnish Defense Forces), Adolf Hitler (German Führer) and Risto Ryti (Finnish President).

The German dictator Adolf Hitler, inspects the honor guard after receiving the new Polish ambassador in Lipski.

Adolf Hitler in the courtyard of the Berghof, dressed civilian, sitting in a basketball chair and reading archives. Photography close to 1936.

Adolf Hitler in the 1930s.

Adolf Hitler left the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich after a visit to the studios, circa 1934.

Adolf Hitler on the platform of the Luitpold Arena in Nuremberg during the Rally of Freedom of 1935.

Adolf Hitler with Eva Braun.

High angle view of a crowd gathered at the Odeon Platz in Munich, Germany. An inset shows the future Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in the crowd.

erman dictator Adolf Hitler shakes hands with British rower Jack Beresford after he and Leslie Frank 'Dick' Southwood won the double scull at the Berlin Olympics, 14 August 1936 Members of the German gymnastics team are also present.

Boy adjusts his friend Adolf Hitler's mask on a street in King's Cross, London.

The German dictator Adolf Hitler while watching an owl in the Kehlstein area near his residence, Berghof, Germany, 1940.

Meeting between Hitler and the British premier Neville Chamberlain in Germany during the thirties.

National Harvest Day, Hitler greets children as he is received by farmers in Germany in the middle of 1937.

The leader of the National Socialst party Adolf Hitler in his stay by the fortress of Landsberg am Lech in the middle of 1924, where he was imprisoned after he tried to overthrow the government of Bavaria.

Hitler posing to a recording of one of his speeches after its liberation of the prison of Landsberg.

Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialist Party of German Workers.

May 27, 1938, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler inspects the new car of the town at the German automobile factory in Fallensleben, designed to manufacture six million cars.

Adolf Hitler walking, along with his deputy Rudolf Hess in Bad Harzburg, Germany, in the middle of 1933.

A child in an Adolf Hitler costume performs a Nazi salute during Children's Day at the Pontypool Carnival, Wales, UK.

The German dictator Adolf Hitler discussing together with the architect Albert Speer, plans for a new administration building for the provincial government in Weimar, Germany.

Mountain refuge of Adolf Hitler in Obersalzberg, on Berchtesgaden in Bavaria. This chalet or "Berghof" was destroyed in 1953, so that it did not become a sanctuary to Hitler.

The German dictator Adolf Hitler, with the swastika bracelet in his brown shirt, finds a young follower.

The Italian dictator Benito Mussolini leaves Adolf Hitler at the station after a visit to Berlin.

German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler receives a telephone call at Wolfschlucht I, his headquarters in Bruly-de-Pesche, Belgium, May-June 1940.

he German leader Adolf Hitler next to a disguised as SA (Sturmabteilung), circa 1930.

Adolf Hitler poses with a young admirer after giving his autograph, around 1934.

German leader Adolf Hitler holds the National Socialist banner in a commemorative ceremony for the failed uprising of November 9, 1923, known as the Putsch of the Brewery.

Eva Braun photographing Berghof, the Bavarian retreat of Adolf Hitler.

Adolf Hitler gives a speech in the snow during the inauguration of the memorial to the memory of the German poet Dietrich Eckart the 30 of October of 1933 in Neumarkt, Germany.

Adolf Hitler as supreme leader of the SA around 1923.

Adolf Hitler, seated among a band of young National Socialists of the Reich, was crowded in a small room of the Braune house in Munich.

The women are approached to shake hands with the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler at a singing festival in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland), August 3, 1937.

Hitler reading the newspaper in the Landsberg Prison in 1924.

A young woman from the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia places flags with the swastika around a portrait of the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in anticipation of the arrival of the German troops, 30 of September of 1938.

Adolf Hitler with the hand in the babilla, in the region of Berchtesgaden, during 1938.

Adolf Hitler receives visitors, including Rudolf Hess (second from the right), during his imprisonment in the fortress of Landsberg.

German leader Adolf Hitler with two members of the party's paramilitary wing, the SA, in 1923.

Adolf Hitler at his desk in the "brown house", Germany. Photography around 1925.

Hitler sitting on a bench with Helga Goebbels, daughter of Minister Joseph Goebbels.

Two of the documents of Adolf Hitler, his membership in the National Socialist Party of German Workers (NSDAP) as a member number 1, and his permission to have weapons.

Great police parade in Nuremberg, 1940.

Postcards from 1940. The Fuhrer as a middle-class German.

Speech of Adolf Hitler to the town from balcony of the town hall on March 15, 1938 in Vienna, Austria.

Adolf Hitler with one of his dogs in Haus Wachenfeld.

Dictators Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler shake hands.

Hitler on vacation.

British newspaper seller with a poster of the Saturday Review, the headline reads "Hitler is friend of England".

Berlin Olympics 1936. View of Reichssportfeld through the eastern gate, the main entrance.

Inauguration of the first road from Frankfurt to Heidelberg in 1935.

Adolf Hitler making his characteristic salute during 1935.

Adolf Hitler and Rudolf Hess at a rally.

Hitler at its headquarters in Bruly-de-Peche, the Ardennes, Belgium, during the May-June 1940 campaign.

Hitler by car during the inauguration of a new fast road of circulation, circa 1930 in Germany.

Hitler talks to one of his commanders during the 1930s.

Speech of Hitler in front of the comrades of combat, towards 1930 in Munich, Germany.

Adolf Hitler with tie (unusual) and the Nazi insignia on the lapel.

Hitler signs an autograph on the back of a chaperone in Nuremberg, Germany, in mid-June 1938.

Platform of the dignitaries in a military parade for the celebration of the 50th birthday of Adolf Hitler on April 20, 1939 in Berlin, Germany.