万花筒 2009-06-10&06-11 希特勒从未公开的照片

Unlike most images of World War II that are in black and white, these never-before-publicly-seen photos of Adolf Hitler are all in color.

The immediacy of these photographs is one of the most chilling aspects of them. They look like they were snapshots taken four days ago.

Life.com deputy editor Ben Cosgrove says Life bought some two thousand pictures in the 1960s from Hugo Jaeger, a Nazi¹ himself and Hitler’s personal photographer.

Cosgrove says an interview transcript² reveals Jaeger hid negatives like these for decades after Ally troops confronted him in 1945 near Munich.

They went down to a basement in the house where he was staying. There was a large leather suitcase, in which he had his entire archive of thousands of color photographs. Along the way they came across an unopened bottle of cognac that Jaeger claims he had saved to wash down the cyanide that he was gonna take when the Allies came.

The photographs which were in negatives were unnoticed when the soldiers were said to have taken more of an interest in the cognac. Jaeger reportedly buried his negatives in 12 glass jars for a decade before moving them to a bank vault³ and then selling them to Life for 50,000 dollars. Until now, only a few were published. Asked about the decision to make them all public now.

The fear is always that there might be a glorification⁴, or even a perceived glorification of these people in this era by putting out these images, so we discussed it and very quickly and unanimously said: No, of course, we have to publish these. It captures an entire era like nothing else that I’ve ever seen.

1 Nazi   

n.纳粹分子，adj.纳粹党的，纳粹的

参考例句：

• They declare the Nazi regime overthrown and sue for peace.他们宣布纳粹政权已被推翻，并出面求和。
• Nazi closes those war criminals inside their concentration camp.纳粹把那些战犯关在他们的集中营里。

2 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

3 vault   

n.拱形圆顶，地窖，地下室

参考例句：

• The vault of this cathedral is very high.这座天主教堂的拱顶非常高。
• The old patrician was buried in the family vault.这位老贵族埋在家族的墓地里。

4 glorification   

n.赞颂

参考例句：

• Militant devotion to and glorification of one's country; fanatical patriotism. 对国家的军事效忠以及美化；狂热的爱国主义。
• Glorification-A change of place, a new condition with God. 得荣─在神面前新处境，改变了我们的结局。