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December 11,
2020 - Droog Magazine periodical for investigative
journalism The strange business of selling fakes, forgeries and other concoctions attributed to Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and other Nazi criminals. Introduction
The first appearance of the forged Hitler watercolors
The forger forged: left Reinhold Hanisch, on a photograph published in the Wiener Sonn- und Montags-Zeitung, 1933. At right an oil painting, depicted in Price (1983), allegedly depicting Hanisch and allegedly made by Adolf Hitler in 1910. In reality it is a Konrad Kujau contraption. The true identity of the depicted man and of the artist are unknown; the Hitler signature on it is a forgery, added by Kujau in the 1970s or early 1980s.
https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010535381:mpeg21:a0144 Hitler als Bettler in Wien. Wiener Sonn- und Montags-Zeitung, Wien, 21-08-1933. http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=wsz&datum=19330821&seite=7&zoom=33 Jean Guignebert. Ce qui Hitler na raconte pas dans “Mein Kampf”. Un ami de jeunesse du Führer évoque des souvenirs pittoresques. Le petit Journal, Paris, 27-08-1933. https://www.retronews.fr/journal/le-petit-journal/27-aout-1933/100/406355/1?from=%2Fsearch%23allTerms%3Dhitler%2520aquarelle%26sort%3Dscore%26published Bounds%3Dfrom%26indexedBounds%3Dfrom%26page%3D1%26searchIn%3Dall%26total%3D3620& index=3 Oberpolizeirat Dr. Spring. Bundes Polizeidirektion Wien, Sicherheitsbureau, s.B. 17105/36, November-December 1936. NSDAP Hauptarchiv NS 26/2599; Bundesarchiv Berlin. Reinhold
Hanisch.
'I was Hitler's buddy'. The New Republic,
05-04-1939. Billy F. Price [= August Priesack and Peter
Jahn]. Adolf Hitler als Maler und Zeichner. Ein
Werkkatalog der Ölgemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen
und Architekturskizzen. Gallant Verlag, Zug, 1983. Pages 92 and
161. A. Joachimsthaler. Korrektur einer Biographie. Adolf Hitler 1908-1920. Mit 67 Textabbildungen und 69 Fotos. Herbig, [München], [1989]. Page 268.
Frederic Spotts. Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics, Arrow Books, London, 2002. P. 142. http://www.bartfmdroog.com/droog/niod/spotts.html#142Jaap van den Born & Bart FM Droog. Reinhold Hanisch. de eerste Hitler-vervalser. Droog Magazine, Eenrum, 30-12-2018. https://www.bartfmdroog.com/droog/niod/hanisch.html Bart FM Droog. 'Heuse Hitlers'. Mythe en werkelijkheid over de jeugdjaren van de latere Führer. [Article about Reinhold Hanisch]. Geschiedenis-magazine, Zeist, #6, september 2019. https://www.droog-mag.nl/hitler/2019/droog-reinhold-hanisch-geschiedenismagazine-september-2019.pdf
To top of page. Fake Hitler baby photo The Chicago Tribune published on October 22, 1933, a photo of a monstruous baby, allegedly being Hitler-the-baby. According to The Tribune the photo, which was later published in many newspapers and magazines all over the world, originated from Acme Newspictures, a news agency active in the 1920s-1940s. Acme stated that it had received the photo from its London office; the London office claimed it originated from Austria. “They've made a sourpuss
out of my son by fiendishly changing his mien,
refute, I pray, this heinous one, let his cherubic
likeness be seen.” (quotation reprinted in the
Dutch East Indies newspaper De Indische
Courant, 1938). Until this very day it
is unknown who doctored the photo. The
authentic Hitler the baby, circa
1890, and the fake baby Hitler photo
(both public domain). “One sunny day in 1931, Harriet May Warren plunked her chubby two year-old son on a blanket outside their home for a photo shoot, out of which several adorable photos emerged. Seven years later, having relocated to Lakewood, Ohio, Harriet was thumbing through a copy of Life magazine and saw a likeness she recognized, but which had been grotesquely altered.” According to Davis the
photo was first printed by a Dutch newspaper, and
reached America via the London
Daily Herald. The
first part of this story is probably not true:
because of the neutral status of the Netherlands
in the 1930's, it 's hard to imagine that any
Dutch newspaper would have published such a photo.
Tooverlantaarn.
De Indische Courant, Soerabaja (Dutch
East Indies), 08-07-1938. Photographers'
Identities Catalog. The New York Public Library,
New York, [seen 11-12-2020]. Jeffrey Davis. The true
story of Hitler's fake baby photo. Atlas
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