The Background: These are some of the illustrations to a chapter by Otto Dietrich on the relationship between Hitler and the German people. The chapter is part of an illustrated coffee-table type book on Hitler that was published in 1936. The chapter translation is available here.

The source: Otto Dietrich, “Der Führer and das deutsche Volk,”Adolf Hitler. Bilder aus dem Leben des Führers(Hamburg: Cigaretten/Bilderdienst Hamburg/Bahrenfeld, 1936, pp. 19-26.

The Führer and the German People

	While traveling though East Prussia, the Führer visits a farming family.
	The day the Saar returned to Germany.
	Enthusiasm as the Führer visits the Hamburg harbor.
	A delegation from the Saar visits the Reich Chancellery.
	She wants to hold the Führer’s hand.
	Everyone wants to shake the Führer’s hand.
	The farmers also believe in the Führer.
	The old trust the Führer.
	A picture from the 1932 election campaign in Hesse.
	A visit with one of those injured in Reinsdorf [a major accident].
	The April 1934 meeting on the Saar at the Ehrenbreitstein (Koblenz)

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