Hitler was named TIME's Man of the Year in 1938. (Adolf Hitler and his chief of police Heinrich Himmler inspecting the SS Guard, 1938. Photograph: Getty Images) |
On January 2, 1939, Time Magazine published its annual Man of the Year issue. For the year 1938, Time had chosen Adolf Hitler as the man who "for better or worse" (as Time founder Henry Luce expressed it) had most influenced events of the preceding year.
Cover Credit: RUDOLPH C. VON RIPPER |
The cover picture featured Hitler playing "his hymn of hate in a desecrated cathedral while victims dangle on a St. Catherine's wheel and the Nazi hierarchy looks on." This picture was drawn by Baron Rudolph Charles von Ripper, a German Catholic who had fled Hitler's Germany.
The Man of the Year cover had been a Time tradition since 1927 when Charles Lindbergh became the first Man of the Year. Ironically, Lindbergh was an admirer of Hitler and Nazi Germany; he became active in the America First organization which opposed America entering World War II in the fight against Adolf Hitler.
Photographed at work, image-heavy. Most people react, understandably and sensibly, with horror when learning that Hitler was chosen by Time magazine as Man of the Year, 1939. So the cover says it all, really.
That's not the original cover. The original was Hitler's portrait
ReplyDeleteYou are likely thinking about the cover from April 14 1941, NOT the Man of the Year cover from 1939. The 1941 cover was a color photo of Hitler seated, and it's the one you'll find on most poorly-researched blogs about him being Man of the Year.
DeleteGreat man those days...
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