History’s Most Evil Man: A Young Hitler Cheers the Commence of WWI, 1914
Local photographer Heinrich Hoffmann took this photograph at a rally in support of the great war against Russia in Munich’s Odeonsplatz on August 2, 1914. At the time, this photograph was used countless times in newspapers, books, biographies, and school books.
It would later become a popular tool in the Nazi propaganda machine, appearing with headers such as “Adolf Hitler: A man of the People”, perpetuating the idea that the Nazi agenda was always a part of the German people. Hate can blossom everywhere, that is why it’s important to keep it in check and protest against it.