One of many in Heinrich Hoffmann's famous series of photographs of Adolf Hitler rehearsing his gestures, postures and expressions for later “vetting”, as Hoffmann explained after the war. Commonly thought to have been taken in 1925, the world would never have seen these photographs, had Hoffmann obeyed Hitler's order to destroy all the negatives and prints. [ original 1 | original 2 | colorization 🔗 ] Note: The colorization is based on a composite of two separate source images. Colorized by Rare Hitler Pictures @rarehitty