Heinrich Hoffmann (photographer)

Heinrich Hoffmann was Adolf Hitler's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle. Hoffmann's photographs were a significant part of Hitler's propaganda campaign to present himself and the Nazi Party as a significant mass phenomenon. He received royalties from all uses of Hitler's image, which made him a millionaire over the course of Hitler's rule. After the Second World War he was tried and sentenced to 10 years in prison for war profiteering. He was classified by the Allies' Art Looting Investigators to be a "major offender" in Nazi art plundering of Jews, as both art dealer and collector and his art collection, which contained many artworks looted from Jews, was ordered confiscated by the Allies.

12 September 1885

Born on the same birth day (12 September): Anselm Feuerbach • Daniel Muir • Dieter Hecking • Donald MacDonald (Nova Scotia politician) • Einstein Kristiansen • H. H. Asquith • Han Suyin • Jesse Owens • Larry LaLonde • Linda Gray • Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse • Ralph Neely • Richard March Hoe • Turgut Cansever • William Sprague IV

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