ID man with Hitler and Speer

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ID man with Hitler and Speer

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Post by von thoma » 12 Apr 2017, 21:43

Who is the man between Hitler and Albert Speer ?
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Post by shamirnewell » 13 Apr 2017, 01:36

von thoma wrote:Who is the man between Hitler and Albert Speer ?
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Hitler Christmas.jpg

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Is it Herman Esser


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Post by Mark Costa » 13 Apr 2017, 03:28

It is definitely NOT Herman Esser.

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Post by Hunin » 02 Nov 2023, 16:01

Based on the decorations on the table, the celebration looks like a Christmas party. That's why I think it's the Christmas party for the construction workers at the Reich Chancellery on December 22, 1938. In a newspaper report about this event you can read that the foreman Gottwald gave a speech. That's why I guess that the person between Hitler and Speer and Brückner is this foreman Gottwald.
Hitler looks a bit bored.
I hope this has clarified this old query.
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Post by Ivan Ž. » 02 Nov 2023, 20:53

If you go to the original source of the image, which is Ullstein Bild (their images are also available at Getty Images), you'll find out that it is indeed Gottwald.
Ullstein Bild wrote:Reception for the workers employed in the construction of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin in the Deutschlandhalle; at the table of honour (to the right) Hitler, the foreman Gottwald, the architect Albert Speer and the personal adjutant SA-Obergruppenfuehrer Wilhelm Brueckner. (23/12/1938)
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