Hitler Was My Friend - by Heinrich Hoffmann. [First Edition]

Publisher: Burke Publishing Company Ltd., London, 1955. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE. Very good hardback with jacket. Some bumping and fading to spine ends. No inscriptions, pages foxed. Small piece cut from edge of ffep. Bookseller's label inside front board. Jacket is price clipped with chipping to edges, There is some small loss to spine ends, reverse of jacket has been reinforced with paper on reverse at edges. 256 pages, illustrated with b&w plates.

Many unusal photos of Hitler and other German leaders. Contents include: Hitler - Religion and Superstition; Women and Hitler; With Hitler at Home; The End for Both of Us.Heinrich Hoffman was a key part in the making of the Hitler legend, the photographer who carefully crafted the image of the Fuhrer as a godlike figure. Hoffmann published his first book of photographs in 1919, following his work as an official photographer for the German army. In 1920 he joined the Nazi Party, and his association with Hitler began. He became Hitler's official photographer and travelled with him extensively. He took over two million photographs of Hitler, and they were distributed widely, including on postage stamps, an enterprise that proved very profitable for both men. Hoffmann published several books on Hitler in the 1930s, including The Hitler Nobody Knows (1933). Hoffmann and Hitler were very close, and he acted not only as a personal confidante - his memoirs include rare details of the Fuhrer - but also as a matchmaker - it is Hoffmann who introduced Eva Braun, his studio assistant, to Hitler. At the end of the war, Hoffmann was arrested by the US military, who also seized his photographic archive, and was sentenced to imprisonment for Nazi profiteering. Fascinating account by Hitler's official photographer The story behind the photographs that helped create the Hitler 'myth' Intimate details of Hitler's life, as recalled by one of his closest friends.