Hitler Was My Friend: The Memoirs of Hitler's Photographer

US: Frontline Books, 2012. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Heinrich Hoffman was a key part in the making of the Hitler legend, the pho tographer who carefully crafted the image of the Führer as a godlike figure . Hoffmann published his first book of photographs in 1919, following his w ork 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 traveled 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 profita ble for both men. Hoffmann published several books on Hitler in the 1930s, including The Hitler Nobody Knows (1933). Hoffmann and Hitler were very clo se, and he acted not only as a personal confidante - his memoirs include ra re details of the Führer - but also as a matchmaker - it is Hoffmann who in troduced Eva Braun, his studio assistant, to Hitler. At the end of the war, Hoffmann was arrested by the US military, who also s eized his photographic archive, and was sentenced to imprisonment for Nazi profiteering. This edition of a classic book includes photographs by Hoffmann and a new introduction by Roger Moorhouse.