Part Three
Als der Kampf begann… Aufnahme des Führers aus dem Jahr 1921, als Hitler anfing, in immer größer werdenden Versammlungen das deutsche Volk zum Widerstand aufzurufen.
When the fight started… Photographs of the Führer from 1921 when he started speaking before a constantly increasing number of crowds, urging the German people to revolt.
Die erste Aufnahme des Führers bei Beginn seiner politischen Tätigkeit: Fahnenweihe auf dem Marsfeld München 1923
The first photograph of the Führer taken at the beginning of his political career: the flag ordination on the Marsfeld parade ground in Munich 1923.
Facing up to the German Communists for the first time with military weapons, Hitler oversees a machine gun team, 1 May 1923.
Endless campaining for power: Hitler during an election campaign strikes poses for the people and the cameras. He chooses to appear confident and in control – a man to whom the voters can entrust their future.
So war es 1922! Windjacken, Skimützen, derbe Stöcke. Aus diesen primitiven Anfängen heraus entwickelte sich die gewaltige Organisation der Nationalsozialistischen SA. Eine Idee begann Gestalt zu werden, die Marschkolonnen des Nationalsozialismus setzten sich in Bewegung.
That was what it was like in 1922! Windcheaters, ski caps, roughly hewn sticks. The gigantic national socialist SA developed from these primitive beginnings. An idea started to take form and the marching columns of national socialism started to move.
Auch der Führer trug damals den SA.-Stock…
The Führer also held the SA stick at the time…
1923 waren es schon Tausende und Abertausende, die sich dem Führer zur Freiheit verschworen hatten. Feiger Verrat versuchte an jenem dunklen 9. November die junge Bewegung zu vernichten. Aber mächtiger denn je erhob sie sich.
In 1923, many thousand conspired to restrict the Führer´s freedom. Cowardly treachery attempted to destroy the new movement on that dark 9th of November but it rose again, stronger than ever.
HIT36 Some of the very first Nazis: Hitler with Schaub, Schreck and Schneider.
November 9, 1923 marks the date of Hitler’s attempted Bierkellerputsch (beer hall putsch) in Munich, his failed attempt to overthrow the Weimar Republic (in which four Bavarian policemen and a bystander were killed, in addition to 16 ‘Putschisten’)
HIT55 Barricades erected and manned by the Nazis in front of the War Ministry 9 November 1923. Around 3,000 people joined Hitler at that time and the push for power failed.
A large crowd gathers in front of the Rathaus to hear the exhortations of Julius Streicher during the Beer Hall Putsch.
Leaders of the Beer Hall Putsch, 1923, awaiting trial (left to right): Heinz Pernet, Friedrich Weber, Wilhelm Frick, Hermann Kriebel, Erich Ludendorff, Adolf Hitler, Wilhelm Brückner, Ernst Röhm, Robert Heinrich Wagner.
A camera smuggled into the court room was used to take this photograph of the proceedings when the trial of the leaders of the failed coup took place in 1924.
Landsberg Prison located in the town of Landsberg am Lech in the southwest of the German state of Bavaria, about 40 miles west of Munich. Hitler was confined here for nine months of a five year sentence.
Der Führer in seiner Zelle in der Landsberger Festung, wo er 1923 und 1924 gefangen gehalten wurde
The Führer in his cell in Landsberg Fortress, where he was held prisoner in 1923 and 1924
The conditions of Hitler’s incarceration in Landsberg Prison were comfortable, and he used his time there to write Mein Kampf. Hitler is pictured in his cell Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Kriebel, J. Fobke and Dr Friedrich Weber. Date, February 1924.
Visitors could come and go as they pleased and Hitler was able to formulate ideas for his book Mein Kampf (My Struggle).
Hitler began dictating the book to his deputy, Rudolf Hess, from his prison cell. Although Hitler received many visitors initially, he soon devoted himself entirely to the book. As he continued, Hitler realized that it would have to be a two-volume work, with the first volume scheduled for release in early 1925.
The governor of Landsberg noted at the time that Hitler hoped the book would run into many editions, thus enabling him to fulfill his financial obligations and to defray the expenses incurred at the time of his trial.
Hitler leaves Landsberg prison and a snapshot is taken by his friend, Heinrich Hoffmann,
Nach dreistündiger Rede schreitet der Führer erschöpft durch das Spalier der SA-und SS-Kameraden, umbraust von dem Jubel der Tausende, die durch ihn einen neuen Glauben und eine neue Hoffnung gewonnen haben.
After having held a three-hour talk, the Führer walks exhausted through the guard of honour provided by the SA and SS comrades, surrounded by the roaring jubilation of the thousands that have gained new faith and new hope through him.
‘Martyrs’ of the Munich Putsch. It reads AND YOU HAVE WON.
THESE MEN FELL ON November 9, 1923 BEFORE FELDHERRNHALLE AND IN THE COURTYARD OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT IN THE LOYAL HOPE FOR THE RESURRECTION OF YOUR PEOPLE.
Der Redner. Die Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei wurde groß durch ihre Massenpropaganda. Noch heute ist Adolf Hitler nicht nur der Führer, sondern auch der erste Propagandist seiner Bewegung. Wie Hammerschläge fallen seine Worte in die Herzen der Zehntausende, die ihm zuhören: „Man bettelt nicht für ein Recht, für ein Recht kämpft man“
The speaker. The National Socialist German Workers Party expanded due to its mass propaganda. It is still the case today that Adolf Hitler is not only the Führer, but also the first propagandist of his movement. His words are driven into the hearts of the tens of the thousand that listen to him. ‘One does not beg for a right, one fights for a right.’
In the year following his release, 1925, Hitler re-founded and reorganized the Nazi Party, with himself as its undisputed Leader.