![Hitler rehearsing his oratory. Hitler carefully cultivated his image as the Nazi Party leader as he came to see the propagandistic ... [LCID: p509]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/7c2c4000-a65f-4fc3-9c74-ed3cca8e5c32.jpg)
Hitler carefully cultivated his image as the Nazi Party leader as he came to see the propagandistic value of photographic publicity. Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler’s official photographer, created the images central to the growing "Führer cult." In 1927, Hoffmann snapped action shots such as this one of Hitler rehearsing his oratory.
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