1924: The Year That Made Hitler (36 page)

Hitler at his window in “cell” number seven of Landsberg Prison. (National Archives)

This famous photograph shows Hitler in a pro-war crowd at Odeon Square in Munich on August 2, 1914. The photograph may have been doctored years later for propaganda purposes. (Fotoarchiv Heinrich Hoffmann, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)

Hitler, far left, with other German army field messengers in World War I. He usually positioned himself on the edge of the group. (National Archives)

Hitler at Munich’s Café Heck, on the edge of the Royal Gardens, with his walkaround buddy, Ernst Hanfstaengl. (Fotoarchiv Heinrich Hoffmann, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)

Hitler practicing his speaking poses for photographer Heinrich Hoffmann’s camera. (Bundesarchiv)

A Nazi rally at the Bürgerbräukeller beer hall, where Hitler staged his 1923 putsch—and his 1925 comeback rally. In 1939, he barely escaped an assassination attempt in the hall. (Bundesarchiv)

Hitler and Gen. Erich Ludendorff, the hero of World War I. They led the putsch’s final march together but later became bitterly estranged. (Fotoarchiv Heinrich Hoffmann, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)

Putschists patrolling Munich by truck. (Fotoarchiv Heinrich Hoffmann, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)

Putschists plastered proclamations around Munich declaring a new provisional government. (Historisches Lexikon Bayerns)

Putschists kidnapped Socialist and Communist city councilmen. Hans Kallenbach is on the far right. (Fotoarchiv Heinrich Hoffmann, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)

During the putsch, a Nazi speaker exhorts a dense crowd in front of Munich City Hall. (Fotoarchiv Heinrich Hoffmann, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)

Heinrich Himmler, a new convert to the Nazi cause and future head of the SS killing machine, holds a flag as putschists take over a district military headquarters—their only success. (Fotoarchiv Heinrich Hoffmann, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)

Hitler and his fellow defendants on the last day of their treason trial at the Infantry School. (Pöhner is absent.) (Fotoarchiv Heinrich Hoffmann, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)