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On yesterday, Dec 20, but in 1924, Adolf Hitler was released from prison after serving nine months for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch.
"...A. Hitler leaving Landsberg imprisonment on Dec 20, 1924..."
A almost 90-year-old photo, in which the future dictator appears shortly after leaving prison, was not taken outside of Landsberg Prison as it was previously thought. The picture was taken by Hitler’s photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann (1885/1957), and the image has been used by the press in the past decades, with the explanation “Hitler leaving the Landsberg prison” as Hoffmann had written himself.
Landsberg prison
The gate shown is the elegant late-Gothic Bayertor, southern-most entrance to the old town of Landsberg, a kilometre away across the River Lech.
Gothic Bayertor
The story goes that Hoffmann, who had travelled from Munich to collect Hitler upon his release, had naturally wanted to record the event for posterity, but had been forbidden from doing so by a prison guard, who threatened to confiscate his camera if he persisted. Frustrated, Hoffmann drove the short distance to the Bayertor and got Hitler to pose for the photo there. As he confessed in his later memoir, he made the decision simply because the location offered ‘something of the fortress atmosphere’.
"...A. Hitler leaving Landsberg imprisonment on Dec 20, 1924..."
A almost 90-year-old photo, in which the future dictator appears shortly after leaving prison, was not taken outside of Landsberg Prison as it was previously thought. The picture was taken by Hitler’s photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann (1885/1957), and the image has been used by the press in the past decades, with the explanation “Hitler leaving the Landsberg prison” as Hoffmann had written himself.
Landsberg prison
The gate shown is the elegant late-Gothic Bayertor, southern-most entrance to the old town of Landsberg, a kilometre away across the River Lech.
Gothic Bayertor
The story goes that Hoffmann, who had travelled from Munich to collect Hitler upon his release, had naturally wanted to record the event for posterity, but had been forbidden from doing so by a prison guard, who threatened to confiscate his camera if he persisted. Frustrated, Hoffmann drove the short distance to the Bayertor and got Hitler to pose for the photo there. As he confessed in his later memoir, he made the decision simply because the location offered ‘something of the fortress atmosphere’.
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