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Hitler at home: how the Nazi PR machine remade the Führer’s domestic image and duped the world

On March 16, 1941 – with European cities ablaze and Jews being herded into ghettos – The The New York Times Company (NYSE:NYT) Magazine featured an illustrated story on Adolf Hitler’s retreat in the Berchtesgaden Alps.

Adopting a neutral tone, correspondent C Brooks Peters noted that historians of the future would do well to look at the importance of “the Führer’s private and personal domain,” where discussions about the war front were interspersed with “strolls with his three sheep dogs along majestic mountain trails.”