[A]nd now, for some[th]ing completely different:

[Gabriel M.A.]

A very very interesting read, about some not-quite-yet-technically selfies of a very notorious famous someone:

Heinrich Hoffman: the man who shot Hitler


These are, of course, some rather curious historical curiosities. Cue Mel Brooks...

 

[dcsang]

That's some ACTING !!! (not achtung of course....)

Cheers,
Dave

 

[zauhar]

Not unlike talking heads and politicians today, who are coached on how to move and gesture when they appear on TV - I guess inventing industrialized evil was only one area where he was ahead of his time.

I think the photos are fascinating, thanks to the OP for posting this.

Randy

P.S. The photographer was sentenced to four years as a 'war profiteer' - what a joke. Then, as now, the real war profiteers enjoy their dirty spoils, and maybe go on TV to wave the flag and ask for more.

 

[icebear]

Indeed hilarious. You can not but wonder how such an Austrian joke was able to to grab power and get a entire country to follow his ideology w/o ever questioning right or wrong.

As for the photography aspect : He shot 2 million !!! pictures. I guess he used the reporter version with 250 shots of bulk film load and he had two of them.

 

[Sparrow]

... not that funny when one considers that it worked ... I expect modern politician would pose and pull silly faces if they had a gig in Nuremberg eh?

 

[icebear]

... nowadays it's being grilled before congress about 8.4 million car recalls.
Not that this would compare in any way to the atrocities but just as an example for public exposure under intense focus.
Professional media coaching is a given and a must for that matter, otherwise you end up being the laughing stock of the internet a couple of hours later and the print media the next day.

 

[Sparrow]

... yes, if he were doing a piece to camera I expect he'd tone it down a bit ... but shouted over loudspeakers at a torchlit rally he probably pitched it about right

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Man did not shot Hitler, its shot itself.