5 January 1939
Poland's Foreign Minister, Josef Beck, is welcomed at the Berghof

6 January 1939
Adolf Hitler speaks with Heinrich Himmler during a walk on the Obersalzberg on the occasion of his 10 year jubilee as Reichsführer SS

9 January 1939
Adolf Hitler greets Albert Speer in Berlin's Sportpalast on the occasion of the inauguration of the new chancellery

9 January 1939
Ceremony at the Sportpalast for the opening of the New Reich Chancellery

9 January 1939
Adolf Hitler listens to a construction worker speaking in Berlin's Sportpalast for the opening of the new chancellery

12 January 1939
Adolf Hitler in conversation with French diplomat Robert Coulondre

12 January 1939
Adolf Hitler in conversation with French diplomat Robert Coulondre

12 January 1939
Adolf Hitler makes a contribution to the Party's Winter Relief charity in the Court of Honour at the Reich Chancellery

12 January 1939
Adolf Hitler with Hermann Göring for his birthday

21 January 1939
Adolf Hitler in conversation with Czechoslovakian foreign minister František Chvalkovský in Berlin's chancellery

30 January 1939
Adolf Hitler gives his Government Declaration at the first meeting of the newly formed Reichstag in the Kroll Opera in Berlin

30 January 1939
Adolf Hitler greets Ferdinand Porsche and Willy Messerschmitt on Machtergreifung day

31 January 1939
Adolf Hitler greets swedish Prince Gustaf Adolf at a reception with cavalerie officers in Berlin

12 February 1939
In the courtyard of the new Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler shares the Eintopf with invited citizens

13 February 1939
Adolf Hitler outside Bismarckmausoleum in Friedrichsruh

14 February 1939
Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring and admiral Raeder arrive at the launch of the battleship Bismarck in Hamburg (Blohm and Voss shipyard)

17 February 1939
Adolf Hitler arrives at the international automobile show in front of the Brandeburg gate in Berlin, along a parade of 20000 NSKK members

17 February 1939
Opening of the international motor show in Berlin

17 February 1939
Adolf Hitler with Mercedes director Wilhelm Kissel at the Berlin automobile show

17 February 1939
Adolf Hitler and Göring at the Berlin automobile show

17 February 1939
Adolf Hitler with Ferdinand Porsche and Robert Ley at the Volkswagen booth of the International Motor Show in Berlin

17 February 1939
Adolf Hitler with Ferdinand Porsche and Robert Ley at the Volkswagen booth of the International Motor Show in Berlin

17 February 1939
Adolf Hitler greets racing driver Tazio Nuvolari during the International Motor Show in Berlin

17 February 1939
Adolf Hitler greets motorcyclists in white suits during the International Motor Show in Berlin

28 February 1939
Adolf Hitler in conversation with Japanese diplomats in the chancelery

28 February 1939
Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goering leave the Pergamonmuseum after an exhibition of japanese art

1 March 1939
Reception for diplomats in Berlin, in conversation with Neville Henderson

4 March 1939
Artist reception in the large reception hall Hitler in conversation with the solo dancer of the Staatsoper Manon Ehrfur and the actress Dorit Kreysler

7 March 1939
Reception for the commander-in-chief of the Wehrmacht and the commanding generals and admirals with their wives

7 March 1939
Reception for the commander-in-chief of the Wehrmacht and the commanding generals and admirals with their wives

14 March 1939
Adolf Hitler in conversation with Emil Hácha in Berlin

15 March 1939
Adolf Hitler wearing spectacles in a censored photograph taken by Heinrich Hoffmann. The photograph was censored personally by Hitler - no photograph in spectacles was to be published.

15 March 1939
Adolf Hitler in Hradschin's quarter in Prague greets some German wounded soldiers

15 March 1939
Adolf Hitler reviews the honor guard in Prague castle

16 March 1939
Adolf Hitler at the window of Prag's castle

17 March 1939
Adolf Hitler crosses the Czech town of Brünn

23 March 1939
Adolf Hitler on the battleship Deutschland

23 March 1939
Adolf Hitler on the Deutschland battleship

23 March 1939
Adolf Hitler on the Deutschland battleship between Swinmünde and Memel

23 March 1939
Adolf Hitler with admiral Raeder on the Deutschland battleship between Swinmünde and Memel

23 March 1939
Adolf Hitler with admiral Raeder on the Deutschland battleship between Swinmünde and Memel

23 March 1939
Adolf Hitler on the battleship Deutschland between Swinmünde and Memel

23 March 1939
Adolf Hitler on the Deutschland battleship in Swinmünde

23 March 1939
Adolf Hitler enters the Klaipeda town in the Memel region

23 March 1939
Citizens of Klaipeda welcome Adolf Hitler as he crosses the city of Memel

23 March 1939
Hitler in Memel

23 March 1939
Hitler in Memel

23 March 1939
Adolf Hitlers reviews troops in Klaipeda's disctrict in Memel

26 March 1939
Adolf Hitler at the funeral of Gerhard Wagner in Munich

1 April 1939
Adolf Hitler at his arrival in Wilhelmshaven

1 April 1939
Adolf Hitler in Wilhelmshaven for the Tirpitz launch

1 April 1939
Adolf Hitler makes a speech at the Rathausplatz in Wilhelmshaven for the launching of the battleship Tirpitz

1 April 1939
Adolf Hitler makes a speech at the Rathausplatz in Wilhelmshaven for the launching of the battleship Tirpitz

1 April 1939
Adolf Hitler at the launching of the battleship Tirpitz in Wilhelmshaven

2 April 1939
Adolf Hitler on board the Robert Ley KdF (Kraft durch Freude) ship greets crew members

3 April 1939
Adolf Hitler visits the Robert Ley KDF (Kraft durch Freude/Strength Through Joy) cruise ship

3 April 1939
Adolf Hitler on the Robert Ley KDF ship

4 April 1939
Adolf Hitler with Robert and Inge Ley visiting the Robert Ley KDF (Kraft durch Freude/Strength Through Joy) cruise ship

4 April 1939
Adolf Hitler on the Robert Ley cruise ship

4 April 1939
Inge Ley with Adolf Hitler on the Robert Ley cruise ship

5 April 1939
Adolf Hitler at the wedding of Hermann Esser, from Eva Braun's albums

17 April 1939
Hitler in St. Pölten

17 April 1939
Hitler bei den Rekruten in der Ostmark

17 April 1939
Adolf Hitler on the border of the Danube in Krems watches the exercises of the recruits

17 April 1939
Hitler bei den Rekruten

17 April 1939
Hitler bei Rekruten in Österreich

17 April 1939
Hitler bei Rekruten in St. Pölten

19 April 1939
The choir of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler sings for the Führer's 50th birthday in the evening of April 19th

20 April 1939
Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler during the parade of the SS in Wilhelmstrasse on the occasion of Hitler's 50th birthday

20 April 1939
Adolf Hitler on the East-West axe on his way to the parade

20 April 1939
Parade for Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday

20 April 1939
Parade for Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday

20 April 1939
Parade for Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday

20 April 1939
Ferdinand Porsche presents a convertible beetle to Adolf Hitler for his birthday

20 April 1939
Ferdinand Porsche shows Adolf Hitler a tractor model

20 April 1939
Heinrich Himmler offers Adolf Hitler a painting for his 50th birthday

20 April 1939
Adolf Hitler inspects a model of the Siegfried Line (Westwall)

28 April 1939
Adolf Hitler's response to Roosevelt in the Kroll Opera house

28 April 1939
Reichstag session

1 May 1939
Adolf Hitler arrives in Berlin's Olympic stadium before his May Day speech to the Hitler Youth

1 May 1939
Adolf Hitler in Berlin's Olympic Stadium after his speech to 132 000 Hitler Youth and Maidens

2 May 1939
Adolf Hitler vitising the lion house at the newly built zoo in Nuremberg with Willy Liebel, mayor of Nuremberg

3 May 1939
Gustav and Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach at the Hotel Deutscher Hof offer Hitler a bronze table for his 50th birthday (the table was handed over 1 week later at the Berghof)

3 May 1939
Gustav and Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach at the Hotel Deutscher Hof offer Hitler a bronze table for his 50th birthday (the table was handed over 1 week later at the Berghof)

3 May 1939
The Krupp table is documented in an evidence file of the Office of Counsel For War Crimes in the Nuremberg Archive

5 May 1939
Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun on the terrace of the Berghof, from Eva Braun's albums

5 May 1939
Eva Braun filming Adolf Hitler in conversation with Hermann Esser and Theodor Morell on the terrace of the Berghof, from Eva Braun's albums

11 May 1939
Adolf Hitler in conversation with Hermann Esser on the Berghof terrace, from Eva Braun's albums

11 May 1939
Adolf Hitler in conversation with Hermann Esser on the Berghof terrace, from Eva Braun's albums

16 May 1939
Adolf Hitler inspects the Westwall

17 May 1939
Adolf Hitler greets a child from his car during his tour to the Westwall installations

22 May 1939
Unterzeichnung des deutsch-italienischen Bündnispaktes in Berlin

22 May 1939
Adolf Hitler in conversation with Italian ambassador Galeazzo Ciano

22 May 1939
Italian Foreign Minister Ciano after signs the German-Italian Alliance Pact in the Reich Chancellery

22 May 1939
Adolf Hitler presents the Grand Cross of the German Eagle Order to Italian Foreign Minister Ciano after the signing of the German-Italian Alliance Pact in the Reich Chancellery

24 May 1939
Adolf Hitler arrives at the Aubsburg theatre and is welcomed by Gauleiter Karl Wahl

24 May 1939
Adolf Hitler at the reopening of Augsburg city theatre with a performance of Lohengrin by Richard Wagner

24 May 1939

24 May 1939

24 May 1939

1 June 1939
Adolf Hitler with prinz Paul of Yugoslavia in front of the Chancelery

1 June 1939
Festaufführung der Meistersinger in Berlin

2 June 1939
Die Ehrenparade der Deutschen Wehrmacht für Prinzregent Paul von Jugoslawien

2 June 1939
Festaufführung der Meistersinger in Berlin

4 June 1939
Reichs Veterans Day in Kassel

6 June 1939
Adolf Hitler and Hermann Görinf salute the flag after the return of Legion Condor in Berlin

6 June 1939
Adolf Hitler speaks in front of Berlin's Altes Museum on the occasion of the return of the Legion Condor

6 June 1939
Adolf Hitler after his speech to the Legion Condor in Berlin

6 June 1939
Adolf Hitler salutes Field Marshal Wolfram von Richthofen during the parade of honor after the return of Legion Condor from Spain

6 June 1939
Adolf Hitler salutes Field Marshal Wolfram von Richthofen during the parade of honor after the return of Legion Condor from Spain

6 June 1939
Parade der Legion Condor

6 June 1939
Parade of the Legion Condor in front of Berlin's Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg, Adolf Hitler is in the tribune with officials and guests

6 June 1939
Parade of the Legion Condor in front of Berlin's Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg, Adolf Hitler is in the tribune with officials and guests

6 June 1939
Adolf Hitler with he soldiers of Legion Condor in Berlin's Lustgarden

6 June 1939
Hitler at the wreath laying for the fallen of the Legion Condor

11 June 1939
Hitler at a performance of Richard Strauss' latest work Ein Friedenstag, which premiered at the 6th Reichstheaterfestwoche in Vienna

11 June 1939
Hitler at a performance of Richard Strauss' latest work Ein Friedenstag, which premiered at the 6th Reichstheaterfestwoche in Vienna

12 June 1939
Hitler at a performance of Richard Strauss' latest work Ein Friedenstag, which premiered at the 6th Reichstheaterfestwoche in Vienna

17 June 1939
Adolf Hitler receives Khalid al Hud, special envoy of king Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia at the Berghof

21 June 1939
Adolf Hitler and Albert Speer inspect the plans for the new Linz opera in Speer's atelier

1 July 1939
Adolf Hitler visits Heinrich Hoffmann's publishing house in Munich, from Eva Braun's albums

1 July 1939
Adolf Hitler visits Heinrich Hoffmann's publishing house in Munich, from Eva Braun's albums

1 July 1939
Adolf Hitler visits Heinrich Hoffmann's publishing house in Munich, from Eva Braun's albums

1 July 1939
Adolf Hitler visits Heinrich Hoffmann's publishing house in Munich, from Eva Braun's albums

2 July 1939
Adolf Hitler at the state ceremony for General of the Cavalry Knochenhauer in Hamburg

2 July 1939
Hitler expresses his condolences to the widow of the General of the Cavalry Knochenhauer after the state ceremony in Hamburg

16 July 1939
August von Finck makes a speech on the occasion of the opening of the Großen Deutschen Kunstausstellung in Munich

16 July 1939
Adolf Hitler makes a speech on the occasion of the opening of the Großen Deutschen Kunstausstellung in Munich

16 July 1939
Adolf Hitler visits the Great German Art Exhibition, accompanied by Italian guests of honor and foreign ambassadors

16 July 1939

18 July 1939
Adolf Hitler visits Schloss Herrenchiemsee, from Eva Braun's albums

19 July 1939
Adolf Hitler at the Kehlsteinhaus (Eagle's nest)

25 July 1939
Hitler visits the construction work of the Reichsparteitag

25 July 1939
Hitler visits the construction work in Nuremberg

25 July 1939
Adolf Hitler inspects the Nuremberg congress hall under construction and the 1:1 wooden model of the facade with Albert Speer and Nuremberg civil engineering consultant Walter Brugmann

26 July 1939
Adolf Hitler greets Winifred Wagner in front of Bayreuth's Festspielhaus

7 August 1939
Adolf Hitler pose with Albert Forster and Wilhelm Zarske on the Berghof terrasse

22 August 1939
Conference in civil, Adolf Hitler in conversation with senior German officers gathered in the Great Hall of the Berghof

22 August 1939
Conference in civil, Adolf Hitler in conversation with senior German officers gathered in the Great Hall of the Berghof

23 August 1939
Adolf Hitler at the Berghof while Ribbentrop was negociating the german soviet pact in Moscow, from Eva Braun's album

23 August 1939
Adolf Hitler at the Berghof while Ribbentrop was negociating the german soviet pact in Moscow, from Eva Braun's album

23 August 1939
Adolf Hitler in the Berghof great hall waiting for the results of Ribbentrop's negociations about the german soviet pact in Moscow, from Eva Braun's album

23 August 1939
Adolf Hitler in the Berghof great hall waiting for the results of Ribbentrop's negociations about the german soviet pact in Moscow, from Eva Braun's album

23 August 1939
Adolf Hitler in the Berghof great hall waiting for the results of Ribbentrop's negociations about the german soviet pact in Moscow, from Eva Braun's album

23 August 1939
Adolf Hitler in the Berghof great hall waiting for the results of Ribbentrop's negociations about the german soviet pact in Moscow, from Eva Braun's album

31 August 1939
Official order for the attack against Poland, starting World War II, which Adolf Hitler signed at 12:40 ordering the attack to begin at 4:45 the following night

1 September 1939
Adolf Hitler delivering a speech to vindicate the invasion of Poland

1 September 1939
Adolf Hitler delivering a speech to vindicate the invasion of Poland

3 September 1939
Adolf Hitler signs the call to the German nation in the Reich Chancellery after Great Britain and France declare war to Germany

3 September 1939
Alexander Schkwarzew, Soviet Ambassador reads his letters of accreditation to Adolf Hitler, with the Russian Military Attache, General Maksim Purkayev

5 September 1939
Hitler talking to wounded German soldiers in a sickbay near the eastern front in Poland

5 September 1939
Adolf Hitler talking to wounded German soldiers in a sickbay near the eastern front in Poland

5 September 1939
Adolf Hitler talking to wounded German soldiers in a sickbay near the eastern front in Poland

5 September 1939
Adolf Hitler in Groß Born during a visit to the military base

6 September 1939
Adolf Hitler with his driver Erich Kempka visits the Polish front line

10 September 1939
Adolf Hitler is welcomed by the German people at his arrival in Masłów's airfield, Poland

11 September 1939
Adolf Hitler at the Tomaszow airport is welcomed by Walter von Reichenau and Erwin Rommel during the Poland campaign

11 September 1939
Adolf Hitler taking a lunch break at the field kitchen near the front line in Poland

11 September 1939
Adolf Hitler reviews strategic maps of the Poland campaign with his generals

15 September 1939
Adolf Hitler salutes general Wilhelm List at his arrival in Pawłosiów (Poland) before his visit to the 14th army

15 September 1939
Adolf Hitler visits his soldiers in Jaroslaw, Poland

15 September 1939
Adolf Hitler salutes his troops near Ubieszyn

15 September 1939
Adolf Hitler salutes his troops near Ubieszyn as they are crossing the Vistule river

15 September 1939
Adolf Hitler salutes his troops near Ubieszyn as they are crossing the Vistule river

15 September 1939
Adolf Hitler salutes his troops near Ubieszyn as they are crossing the Vistule river

15 September 1939
Adolf Hitler salutes his troops near Ubieszyn as they are crossing the Vistule river

19 September 1939
Gauleiter Albert Forster presents Adolf Hitler a prehistorical urn discovered near Danzig, Poland

19 September 1939
Adolf Hitler (standing at front of car) enters Danzig. The Danzig District was incorporated into Greater Germany following the invasion of Poland

19 September 1939
Adolf Hitler enters Danzig

19 September 1939
Adolf Hitler enters Danzig

19 September 1939
Adolf Hitler enters Danzig

19 September 1939
Adolf Hitler addresses German officers after the occupation of Danzig

19 September 1939
Adolf Hitler addresses German officers after the occupation of Danzig

19 September 1939
Adolf Hitler arrives at the podium to address the people of Danzig

21 September 1939
Hitler besichtigt die Westerplatte

21 September 1939
Adolf Hitler and his staff inspecting the Canet Battery wz.1891 used for defense of the Gdynia harbour and Oksywie outside of Gotenhafen

21 September 1939
Adolf Hitler observes the town of Gdańsk, with Albert Forster beside him

21 September 1939
Adolf Hitler in conversation with Hermann Göring in Oksywie, Poland

22 September 1939
Adolf Hitler visits ​​Heeresgruppe Nord near Warsaw

22 September 1939
Adolf Hitler heads for a closer look at the second artillery carriage of the destroyed Polish armoured train No 13 General Sosnkowski

22 September 1939
Adolf Hitler and Wilhelm Keitel examine the Polish armoured train No 13 General Sosnkowski, destroyed by the German Stukas on 10 September

22 September 1939
Adolf Hitler on a balcony crowded with military officers where several pairs of Scherenfernrohr are set up to view the siege of Warsaw

22 September 1939
Adolf Hitler inspects the siege of Warsaw with officers

25 September 1939
Adolf Hitler at Alexandrow airport visits Heeresgruppe Süd during the attacks on Warsaw

25 September 1939
Adolf Hitler, Erwin Rommel and Walter von Reichenau inspect the Polish front

25 September 1939
Adolf Hitler inspects the captured standard of the Polish 8th Rifle Regiment on horseback

28 September 1939
Adolf Hitler salutes a submarine crew from his car in Wilhelmshaven

28 September 1939
Adolf Hitler during a visit to Kriegsmarine base in Wilhelmshaven with Walther von Brauchitsch and his chauffeur Erich Kempka

October 1939
Adolf Hitler signs the authorization for the Euthanasia Program (Operation T4) - The document was antidated to September 1, 1939 to suggest that the effort was related to wartime measures

5 October 1939
Stereoscopic photograph of Adolf Hitler and other officials leaving the viewing stand following a victory parade in Warsaw celebrating the German conquest of Poland

5 October 1939
Adolf Hitler arrives in Warsaw after the Polish capitulation

5 October 1939
Adolf Hitler crosses Warsaw after the Polish capitulation

5 October 1939
Adolf Hitler salutes the Wehrmacht parade in Warsaw following the defeat of Poland

5 October 1939
Adolf Hitler salutes the Wehrmacht parade in Warsaw

5 October 1939
Adolf Hitler salutes the Wehrmacht parade in Warsaw

5 October 1939
Hitler salutes Wehrmacht in Warsaw

18 October 1939
Adolf Hitler receives and awards Günther Prien and the crew of the U-47 submarine who sank the British battleship HMS Royal Oak anchored in Scapa Flow

8 November 1939
Poster announcing Adolf Hitler's speech for the 1923 putsch commemoration in Munich's Burgerbraükeller, just before the failed bombing attempt by Georg Elser

8 November 1939
Adolf Hitler speaking to participants of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch just before the failed bombing attempt by Georg Elser. The bomb was placed in the pillar behind Hitler.

8 November 1939
Adolf Hitler unexpectedly shortened his speech by 40 minutes, leaving the Bürgerbräukeller a few minutes before the bomb exploded. Georg Elser was arrested at the Swiss border.

11 November 1939
Adolf Hitler visits the damaged Bürgerbräukeller after the assassination attempt against him by Georg Elser

11 November 1939
Adolf Hitler at the commemoration for the victims from the bombing of the Bürgerbräukeller

11 November 1939
At the commemoration for the victims from the bombing of the Bürgerbräukeller on November 8, 1939 by Johann Georg Elser immediately after one of Hitler's speeches commemorating the Beer Hall Putsch

6 December 1939
Adolf Hitler greets August von Mackensen for his 90th Birthday

6 December 1939
Adolf Hitler visits August von Mackensen for his 90th Birthday

25 December 1939
Adolf Hitler visits Luftwaffe soldiers during Christmas 1939

31 December 1939
Hitler, Eva and Gerda Bormann with the Bormann and Speer children, from Eva Braun's albums

31 December 1939
Adolf Hitler with the Speer and Bormann children, from Eva Braun's albums

31 December 1939
Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun with the Speer and Bormann children, from Eva Braun's albums

31 December 1939
Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun and Gerda Bormann with the Bormann and Speer children, from Eva Braun's albums

31 December 1939
Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun and Gerda Bormann with the Bormann and Speer children, from Eva Braun's albums

31 December 1939
Adolf Hitler and his entourage pose on New Year's Eve at the Berghof, from Eva Braun's albums

31 December 1939
Adolf Hitler and his entourage celebrate the New Year at the Berghof, from Eva Braun's albums

31 December 1939
Adolf Hitler and his entourage celebrate the New Year at the Berghof, from Eva Braun's albums

31 December 1939
Adolf Hitler and his entourage celebrate the New Year at the Berghof, from Eva Braun's albums

31 December 1939
Adolf Hitler and his entourage celebrate the New Year at the Berghof, from Eva Braun's albums