Is That der Fuehrer? See the Photos U.S. Intelligence Circulated of Possible Hitler Disguises During WWII
- Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:41am by
Erica Ritz
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Have you ever wondered what Hitler would like without his trademark mustache, or perhaps wearing thick circular spectacles?
Towards the end of World War II, U.S. intelligence officials were very curious, afraid that the genocidal dictator would flee Germany and assume a new identity.
By 1944 the world identified the man largely by his trademark toothbrush mustache and oily side-slicked hair, so they ordered New York makeup artist Eddie Senz to produce various portraits of how he would appear if he drastically altered his appearance.
Der Spiegel, a German news site, published the images in the 1990′s, but the U.S. National Archives in Washington DC have recently released the photos with much better resolution.
(Photo: Iconic Images)
Here is the widely-recognized Hitler image:
But would you recognize him bald and shaven?
What if he was wearing glasses, and had a bigger mustache?
Or wide-rimmed circular glasses, and a pencil mustache?
What if he traded in the mustache altogether for a thick beard?
The photos were circulated among Allied commanders during the war, but were not seen by the public until Der Spiegel published them.
However, the effort was seemingly for naught, as within a year of the photographs being commissioned Hitler committed suicide with his new wife Eva Braun in their German bunker.
The release of the photos coincides with news that the German state of Bavaria is considering making Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” part of the educational curriculum after the legal ban on printing the book expires in 2016.
Though representatives maintain they wish to “demystify” the work, there are worries that radicals and neo-Nazis will use it to promote racial discrimination and hatred of Jews.
During WW2, Mein Kampf was a national bestseller– newly married couples were even given copies as a “wedding present” from the state.
But Bavaria’s state finance minister, who would allocate funds for the work to be distributed, maintains: “We want to make clear what nonsense is in there [to show] what a worldwide catastrophe this dangerous body of thought led to.”
Photos used with permission
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Constantine Ivanov
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:36pmAmazingly resembles many Bolshevik leaders – Plekhanov, Lunacharsky, Martov, Litvinov, etc.
Report Post »sURFNmADNESS
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:19pmOMG, shaven and bald he looks like he could be Cheney’s Dad. J/K
Report Post »trueamerican40
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:37pmThe whole bunch in D.C. should have their own mugshots as well and be given a “1 call only” card.
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:00pmThat picture on top looked just like Col. Klink from Hogan Heroes
Anyway, Happy Birthday Adolf 04/20/1889
Report Post »DeVain
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 2:50pmWhat was the deal with the mustache anyway? I can understand people not wanting one now due to the stigma, but he is the ONLY person I ever saw that had that style before, during, and after WW II. Was he trying to create a fad or something?
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:16pmThe brush moustache was very common in a lot of European countries of the time.
Report Post »disenlightened
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 2:13pmIf ‘Dolf had a son…he’d be David Axlerod.
Report Post »PlowMan
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:05pmFunny! But looks and thoughts match don‘t don’t they?
Report Post »Clmsadjman
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:45pmThe second one looks like Treasury Secretary Paulson there should be senate hearings.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:35pmBig hair would even have a hard time camoflouging those ears.
>But, a burka would hide the scoul, under-bite and extended derriere.
Report Post »Master.Debater
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:25pmHere is a similar study on Obama disguises:
http://i1253.photobucket.com/albums/hh582/twapole/obamadisguises.png
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 2:07pmLOL now that’s funny, I don’t care who you are!
TEA
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:29pmVery good MONACNE/SLEAZY HIPPO…have you decided that ingratiating yourself to the posters here would help you to deflect from your creepy compulsion to use multiple screennames for yourself? Do you really believe ingratiating yourself is going to work for you? Even when you attempt to be “one of the guys” you can’t stop yourself from putting your insipid “TEA” tag line at the end of your f a r t fest you call a post. That’s just creepy. Don’t you have any dignity? You’ve been caught using multiple screennames for yourself and you keep returning to post your witless drivel as if nothing has taken place? Are you that bereft of any intellectual integrity? Are you that pathetic? It’s not unique to you of course..your fellow lefty traveller JZS has a similar characteristic whereby he offers some lefty rote..has it thrown back in his face as mere propaganda and outright falsehood..then offers an “oops..my bad” and returns to keep posting the same garbage as if it never happened. What is it with you lefties? You all seem to be robotic creeps just constantly returning to post your media matters approved banalities and even when you’re caught out..you keep coming back as if nothing took place. You’re like Stepford Wives.
Report Post »roostercogburn
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 8:26pmThat was pretty funny, loved the last one.
Report Post »lembrandt
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:32pmThat guy with the beard looks an awful lot like my freshman year sociology teacher – yikes!
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:12pmI know him, he use to own a wall paper and paint store In Philadelphia. He had good prices too and knew everything about wall paper. He was a real friendly guy and would do anything for you. His English was not that good.
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:16pmHe was the bar tender for the Secret Service agents in Columbia. He said that even his SS were poor tippers too, what ever that meant.
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:17pmHitler is probably living out in California. Its were all the Japanese and German WWII war criminals retire from their US Government jobs.
Report Post »muhamed
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:21pmfunny thing not mentioned…his hair is different in every photo, parted on left, bald, no part, parted on right, longer
Report Post »JustMel71
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:21pmIt looks like they used the original Wooly Willy toy to create these images. ;)
Report Post »LeeR47
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:06pmDavid Axelrod lookalike (original version).
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:02pmI find the Sigmund Freud likeness. That should really p*ss off many in the hokey psychology gang of freaks.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:00pmIf there was a poster child for someone who looked “not aryan” it was Hitler. And his nazis flock still followed him anyway. Typical of the left.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:36pmHe had blue eyes.
Report Post »pwatkins
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:58amThe evil stare from those eyes can’t be disguised.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:53amHe looks “white hispanic” in some of them.
Report Post »Balrog28
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:09pmIf I had a son…
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:53amScience is amazing. How did our best scientists manage to do all this way back in the forties? LOL
TEA
Report Post »Inlightofthings
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:17pmENCINOMONICNE:
As history shows your posts continue to be…well…meaningless. I see you are on a new kick? LOL
“Go Sarah Plain/Allen West! Go Taxed Enough Already!”
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:36pmINLIGHTOFTHINGS, Oh c’mon, go easy on ENCINOM(AN) since we know at birth he was delivered by a Freudian proctologist. He has had teething problems ever since.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 2:43pmMONACNE/SLEAZY HIPPO….I’ve told you to stop bothering with your puerile little posts but you seem to be unteachable. They’re not witty, they’re not clever. They’re merely flatulence in written form. You’ve yet to tell me why you need so many screennames here. I’d argue that a self inflating, “enlightened” lefty troll like you wouldn’t need to resort to that kind of subterfuge and yet…you do. Do you find it difficult to express yourself under one name? Do you need to create numerous personalities for yourself so as to create the illusion that lefties appear more “numerous” here perhaps..as sort of “army” of you-albeit it’s only one person? Do you have a little snicker to yourself in your mother’s basement when you post under different names? Is it some childish prank you’ve devised for yourself? Why do you do it? It’s a simple question. Why do you need so many screennames here? For once in your miserable lefty existence…have the courage to face your duplicitous nature and answer the question for me. Why do you need so many screennames? Is it what media matters told you to do perhaps? What purpose does it serve you and them? Please..all I’m trying to do is get some insight into your befuddled little mind. You’ve been caught out, your subterfuge is exposed what possible reason do you have to perpetuate it now? Why hide from yourself? Just tell me why you need so many screennames is that too difficult for you?
Report Post »pap pap
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:48amI wonder what he would look like if he lost the mustache and was 1/2 Bl..k ?
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:11pmHis ears woult be bigger and stick out from his head.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:30pmHe had that option, decided to shoot himself.
Report Post »pap pap
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:47amOn some of them he looks like the guy that played the father on the Addams Family what was his name ? John Astor or something like that.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:00pmJohn Aston
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:51pmAstin
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:25pmGonzo, Thanks for that save.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:45amClassic… I have seen people with those faces!
Report Post »Skrewedretiree
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:20pmYears ago, someone published an article in one of the mainstream magazines (could have been People Magazine) with the theory that there are only between 7 or 11 basic faces. They showed matched photos of different people that looked alike.
Report Post »The one that cracked me up was the matchup with Yasser Arafat and a bearded Ringo Starr.
lukerw
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:16pm@SKREW…
Report Post »I’m a believer!