The man who shot Hitler!

[Rhodes]

Do not know if this was posted here before. Kind of "and now something completely different" line:
http://downtowncamera.tumblr.com/post/61028807955/heinrich-hoffman-the-man-who-shot-hitler

Good photos, particularly the second one!

[Tango589]

I'm astounded that Hitler practised his gestures I always thought looking like a maniac come naturally to him!

[Flamebatter90]

1. Playing imaginary basketball (with two balls)
2. "Godzilla! GODZILLA!!"
3. Giving tips to Max Schmeling for the match against Joe Louis
4. "Stupefy!"
5. "Come at me, bro!"
6. "The scarf has disappeared! Magicks!

[Sailor Steve]

That's pretty entertaining.

[Armistead]

looks like a baptist preacher...

[Catfish]

I'm astounded that Hitler practised his gestures I always thought looking like a maniac come naturally to him!

He learned it from a jewish actor - no joke.

[Aktungbby]

He learned it from a jewish actor - no joke.

Erik Jan Hanussen: a Jewish clairvoyant; He wasn't clairvoyant enough it seems or he was the 'man who knew too much'...assassinated in 1933. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Jan_Hanussen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Jan_Hanussen) "He was potential competition to Hermann Göring (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring) and Joseph Goebbels (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels) for the attention of their Führer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BChrer), which may also have led to his murder. Hanussen's body was discovered over a month later. There are unsubstantiated claims that he may have been involved in the Reichstag fire, hypnotizing and directing Marinus van der Lubbe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinus_van_der_Lubbe), the convicted arsonist, to commit the act.":hmmm:

[Feuer Frei!]

looks like a baptist preacher...
Much better.

[Armistead]

Erik Jan Hanussen: a Jewish clairvoyant; He wasn't clairvoyant enough it seems or he was the 'man who knew too much'...assassinated in 1933. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Jan_Hanussen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Jan_Hanussen) "He was potential competition to Hermann Göring (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring) and Joseph Goebbels (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels) for the attention of their Führer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BChrer), which may also have led to his murder. Hanussen's body was discovered over a month later. There are unsubstantiated claims that he may have been involved in the Reichstag fire, hypnotizing and directing Marinus van der Lubbe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinus_van_der_Lubbe), the convicted arsonist, to commit the act.":hmmm:

But he pretended to be Danish. I can't find that Hitler ever had a clue he was Jewish...

"Erik Jan Hanussen
Hanussen, also known as Erik Jan Hanussen (2 June, 1889, Vienna - after 25 March, 1933, Berlin), was a mentalist, occultist, and astrologer, active in Weimar Republic Germany and also at the beginning of Nazi Germany.

Hanussen claimed to be a Danish aristocrat but was in fact a Czech Jew, born under the name Hermann Steinschneider. He was born to Siegfried Steinschneider (1858 - 1910) and his wife Antonie Julie Kohn. His father was caretaker of a synagogue.

He performed a mind reading and hypnosis act that catapulted him to stardom. At his height he enjoyed the company of Germany's military and business elite, also becoming close with members of the SA (Sturmabteilung). It is claimed he was a supporter of Nazi ideology, in spite of his Jewish ancestry, which was never a very well kept secret.

Legends abound about meetings between Hanussen and Adolf Hitler, including a meeting between the two just before the German election, November 1932, during which Hanussen taught Hitler secret crowd control techniques with the utilization of gesture.

His most famous feat of precognition was supposedly predicting the Reichstag fire, the decisive event that led to recently appointed Chancellor of Germany Hitler seizing absolute power in Germany in 1933. He was assassinated shortly after that (possibly by the Nazis) and hastily buried in a field in the outskirts of Berlin, presumably because he knew too much. His body was discovered in late April of the same year. There are rumours about his involvement in the Reichstag fire.

[danasan]

Leni Riefenstahl (http://www.leni-riefenstahl.de/eng/index.html)comes to mind...

[Jimbuna]

I'm astounded that Hitler practised his gestures I always thought looking like a maniac come naturally to him!

Ditto but the pictures do look like something from a Monty Python comedy sketch.

[Rhodes]

Ditto but the pictures do look like something from a Monty Python comedy sketch.

Why do you think I wrote their intro line!

Tango, even maniacs have to practice!

[Jimbuna]

Why do you think I wrote their intro line!

Tango, even maniacs have to practice!

I saw that, hence my agreement with the reference to Monty Python.