The Press: Hitler's Hoffmann

Out of the photographic establishments of Herr Professor Heinrich Hoffmann in Berlin, Munich and Vienna last week poured thousands of big & little pictures of big little Adolf Hitler, to adorn the walls of the new German subjects of Bohemia, Moravia and Memel. It is an unwritten law of Greater Germany that every household, office, factory and assembly room must show a picture of Der Führer, and Heinrich Hoffmann is Germany's official Reichsbildberichterstatter, or Photographic Reporter of the Reich.

When Hitler enters a fallen province or city, or appears anywhere in public, Photographic Reporter Hoffmann rides in the car behind him. Armed...

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