Photo Essays
After the Fall: Photos of Hitler’s Bunker and the Ruins of Berlin, 1945
In April 1945, as Russian and German troops fought — savagely, street by street — for control of the German capital, it became increasingly clear that the Allies...
Hitler at 50: Color Photos of a Despot’s Birthday
We do not usually give so much space to the work of men we admire so little. So began a remarkable editor’s note to LIFE’s readers in an April 1970 issue of the...
The Brink of Oblivion: Inside Nazi-Occupied Poland, 1939-1940
In the late 1930s and early 1940s, a German photographer and ardent Nazi named Hugo Jaeger enjoyed unprecedented access to the Third Reich’s upper echelon,...
A Brutal Pageantry: The Third Reich’s Myth-Making Machinery, in Color
A powerful insignia alone, Adolf Hitler once noted, “can spark interest in a political movement.” What Hitler did not say, but what is evident to anyone with...
Adolf Hitler's Rise to Power
75 years ago, the dictator ascended to the Chancellery and secured his hold on Germany
Inside a Nazi Christmas Party, 1941
The images are chilling, bordering on surreal: On December 18, 1941, as World War II rages and the horrors of the Third Reich’s “final solution” grow ever...
LIFE at the 1948 London Olympics
As the 2012 London Olympics get underway, LIFE.com looks back in photos — many of which never ran in LIFE magazine — at another summer Olympiad in the great...
