![]() Hitler was a slight, pale man with brown hair parted to one side. Karl Ludecke, who published a book called “I knew Hitler”, wrote the following about the first time that he heard Hitler speak: Hitler watched them for a few moments, a savage fury blazing from his pale blue eyes. Firemen were pouring water into the red mass. Sefton Delmer of the Daily Express wrote on February 23rd, 1933:īy a detour, we next reached a part of the building which was actually in flames. I gripped them quite a few times and was never struck by his lightning. Nor did I detect the electric current his hands were said to give off. ![]() Hitler had deep blue eyes that many found bewitching, although I did not find them so. Leon Degrelle in his article “The Enigma of Hitler” (The Journal of Historical Review): Goebbels described one of his first meetings with Adolf Hitler in the diaries he kept: ![]() Others found the famous stare “opaque, dull”. Not surprisingly, this made a profound impression on many visitors, especially those who had come to the interview wanting this to be their unforgettable meeting with the Führer. It was his practice when meeting someone for the first time, to with what he imagined to be a penetrating gaze. In objective fact, they were physically prominent – large and slightly bulging – and Hitler made a point of using them for dramatic effect. Hitler’s eyes are important historically because of the mystical qualities sometimes attributed to them: followers frequently describe them as blazing, hypnotic, dominating. Those who met Hitler, after the War often refer, in their reminiscences, to his remarkable pale, clear blue eyes, which many states, unequivocally, had a distinctly hypnotic quality. Traudl Junge, his last secretary often told in interviews, that people were amazed about Hitler’s blue eyes. A rare color photo of Adolf Hitler which shows his true eye color.Īlthough Adolf Hitler claimed the Germans were of a superior Aryan race of white, tall, blonde hair, blue-eyed individuals, he himself was of modest height, blue-eyed, and brown-haired.
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