Never-before-seen shots of Adolf Hitler relaxing and meeting leading Nazis found in swastika photo album left in Eva Braun’s bedroom
Nazi dictator seen striking comic poses as he stalks his Wolf Lair headquarters in collection going up for public auction
NEVER-before-seen snaps of Adolf Hitler have emerged 72 years after the end of the war.
The candid album, found in 'first lady' Eva Braun's bedroom drawer, contains images of the Nazi dictator and his closest henchmen in private moments.
One photograph shows a grinning Hitler striking a comedy pose as he walks through the grounds of his Berghof headquarters, also chillingly known as the Wolf's Lair.
In others, twisted SS chief Heinrich Himmler grins for the camera, while Josef Goebbels - the architect of the Holocaust - is greeted by cheering crowds of warped supporters.
The private photo album, which has a Swastika scrawled on its cover, was seized as a souvenir by a British wartime photographer.
Edward Dean entered the Berlin bunker along with broadcaster Richard Dimbleby a few weeks after Hitler and Braun had committed suicide there as allied troops moved in on the city.
It contains 73 informal photos that would have been taken by a member of Hitler's inner circle, possibly a bodyguard or even Braun herself.
Mr Dean sold the album to a collector in the 1980s, and it is now being put up for auction in Kent, estimated at £18,500.
Tim Harper, of C&T Auctions, said: "We can say with 100 per cent certainty that this album was recovered from Hitler's bunker in Berlin in 1945."
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