Secret Photos of Adolf Hitler
A total of nine photographs taken by Hoffman reveal how Adolf Hitler used to rehearse his hand gestures for his public speeches and used to ask Hoffmann to take pictures of these so he could see what he would look like to the German people, as one of Hitler's greatest and most well-known skills was his public speaking which he used to his advantage to emphasise his idea of a "great national revival" of Germany. Egon Hanfstaengl (elder brother of Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstaengl, a prominent figure in the recent 2011 novel In The Garden Of Beasts), the son of Hitler's foreign press officer, said in a documentary, Fatal Attraction Of Hitler: "He had that ability which is needed to make people stop thinking critically and just emote."
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