Photos of Adolf Hitler during the Czechoslovakian crisis

[alterego]

I’m searching for photos to go with this quote from Carl Jung,

Hitler belongs in the category of the truly mystic medicine man. His body does not suggest strength. The outstanding characteristic of his physiognomy is its dreamy look. I was especially struck by that when I saw pictures taken of him [Hitler] in the Czechoslovakian crisis; there was in his eyes the look of a seer. (During an interview with Ernst Hanfstaengl)

[alterego]

I should add, the Crisis was in 1938.

[Danalan]

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[Reeder]

@Danalan

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He isn’t looking for generic pics of hitler.

[chukhung]

Here’s one with Chamberlain that was taken a few days before the Munich Agreement was signed.

[Roches]

Another quote about Hitler’s personal appearance during the Czechoslovakian Crisis:

“In spite of the hardness and ruthlessness I thought I saw in his face, I got the impression that here was a man who could be relied upon when he had given his word.” – Neville Chamberlain, 1938

There’s a newsreel of the conference here. The thumbnails don’t work for me but you may be interested in downloading the video as it does contain footage of Hitler at the conference.

[Danalan]

@Reeder

He isn’t looking for generic pics of hitler.

That’s why all these pictures are of Hitler in 1938. Google +hitler +1938, then review the text accompanying the photos.

I wasn’t trying to be flip, just suggesting that the most cursory search turned up several pictures from that period. Frankly, I’m not sure what I see in his eyes, but I wouldn’t call it dreamy, nor would I characterize them as the eyes of a seer. chukhung’s pic is better, but still doesn’t seem to catch the right look for that quote.

Perhaps here, a pic from a Yahoo image search of +hitler +eyes

[alterego]

I like this one: http://history1900s.about.com/library/graphics/hitler4_3.JPG

Can’t find a year on it though.

[Danalan]

Same with this picture – very striking, but I don’t know the year. BTW, what kind of project is this for, if you don’t mind my asking?

[astro]

Nothing “dreamy” to it.

Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)

Here’s his fashion history

[alterego]

@Danalan

Same with this picture – very striking, but I don’t know the year. BTW, what kind of project is this for, if you don’t mind my asking?

No sort of project, just personal interest. Jung had strokes of brilliancy and strokes of going way off the edge (like when he thought he was a prophet). Just trying to see what he sees. When he says “truly mystic medicine man” he is likely referring to the archetype corresponding to what is now known as the INFP personality type, which is a very very interesting comment.

[klintypooh]

He was miserable wasn’t he?

[biggusignoramus]

@alterego

I’m searching for photos to go with this quote from Carl Jung,

My second entry of the day. I have to make the best out of the one month free subscription since free knowledge is expensive. Hope the forum doesn’t mind.

This photo Alfred Eisenstaedt - The Photojournalist of the Century - The Digital Journalist is off the mark since its of goebbels. Its taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt. If you want a good picture of hitler you should go through Eisenstaedt’s work. I’m sure you’re bound to find something. What do you think of Goebbels eyes in this one?

[Balle_M]

@Danalan

Same with this picture – very striking, but I don’t know the year. BTW, what kind of project is this for, if you don’t mind my asking?

I don’t know, but Karl Rove commissioned it…

[Jackmannii]

I can understand why Hitler would have gotten all dreamy-eyed at the thought of annexing more land.

[tomndebb]

Balle_M, moderately funny, but pretty much out of place in GQ. Rove is not a Nazi and we don’t need to see such comparisons made off topic in this Forum.

[Balle_M]

@tomndebb

Balle_M, moderately funny, but pretty much out of place in GQ. Rove is not a Nazi and we don’t need to see such comparisons made off topic in this Forum.

That certainly wasn’t my attention and I do apologize.

[Roches]

If he looks all dreamy-eyed, maybe it’s drugs. During the 1938 crisis, Hitler hadn’t begun to be treated by the quack (in most opinions) doctor Morell, but perhaps he had been given some medication that affected his facial apperance.

It’s also possible that it has something to do with photography of the period. Unless I misunderstood, Carl Jung’s opinion was formed by looking at photographs, while Chamberlain’s opinion that Hitler’s face was hard and ruthless (but somehow worthy of trust) was formed by meeting him face-to-face. Perhaps someone who knows more about photography in the 30s could comment…

[alterego]

@Roches

If he looks all dreamy-eyed, maybe it’s drugs. During the 1938 crisis, Hitler hadn’t begun to be treated by the quack (in most opinions) doctor Morell, but perhaps he had been given some medication that affected his facial apperance.

It’s also possible that it has something to do with photography of the period. Unless I misunderstood, Carl Jung’s opinion was formed by looking at photographs, while Chamberlain’s opinion that Hitler’s face was hard and ruthless (but somehow worthy of trust) was formed by meeting him face-to-face. Perhaps someone who knows more about photography in the 30s could comment…

Jung was an outstanding judge of personality, so even if he was wrong it is interesting to try and see what he saw. Hitler looks like he had difficulties with his physical appearance, poor posture, his hair unkempt when others are meticulous, sagging facial features. In the photo I showed, look at the young men behind him and look at him. He is in disarray. These are signs of an intuitive mind. Hitler was also interested in the occult[sup]1[/sup], which is abstract as opposed to militiaristic concreteness. I’m not saying I agree, but this seems to be what Jung saw. I found another quote from him concerning Hitler:

A Swiss, Martin Ninck, has recently written a very interesting book called Wodan und Germanischer Schicksalsglaube in which he collected all the material about Wotan as evidence that he is the personification of the moving spirit behind Hitler. Wotan is the noise in the wood, the rushing waters, the one who causes natural catastrophes, and war among human beings. He is the great sorcerer. Quite rightly, the Romans identified him with Mercury - of course not as the god of merchants, but of sorcerers, of the people who go in the dark, who are surreptitious in a way, who are moved by dark purposes; and he is also the psychopompos, the leader of souls, the one that carries the souls into the ghostland, the god of revelation. Therefore one can say he is very similar to the Thracian Dionysos, the god of orgiastic enthusiasm. Now old Wotan is in the center of Europe - and it reaches, as you know, from the Urals to Spain - we see religion upset; in the most Catholic of all countries, Spain the church is completely overthrown. And that is old Wotan, you could not name it better, the wind that came and blew the thing into bits. Fascism in Italy is old Wotan again; they are Longobards, and they all have that Germanic spirit. Carl Jung, seminar on Nietzsches Zarathustra, 5 february 1936

Wikipedia tells us about Wotan (Odin)

His name, for the warlike Norsemen, was synonymous with battle and warfare, for he appears throughout the myths as the bringer of victory. Odin was a shape-changer, able to change his skin and form in any way he liked. He was said to travel the world disguised as an old man with a staff, one-eyed, grey-bearded and wearing a wide-brimmed hat (called Gangleri (“the wanderer”)). Odin sometimes traveled among mortals under aliases Vak and Valtam.

If I get the chance in college it might be interesting to write a paper comparing and contrasting perceptions of Hitler’s character and personality.

[sup]1[/sup]Sickinger, Raymond (2000). Hitler and the Occult: The Magical Thinking of Adolf Hitler. Journal of Popular Culture; Fall2000, Vol. 34 Issue 2, p107, 19p (I grabbed this out of the ephost database)