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by xdennis
952 days ago
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Because he didn't want to be recorded in a natural setting. His public image was very well managed. * In the early years of his leadership of the NSDAP there were no pictures of him because he didn't let people take pictures of him. * He never married (until the end) because he thought he would appeal more to women if he was a bachelor and would enhanced the idea that he was fully dedicated to Germany. * There are pictures of him practicing his dramatic expressions. His photographer was supposed to destroy them, but he disobeyed and kept the photos. That is, he wasn't spontaneous, he practiced his poses a lot. * He would exercise his right arm. Apparently holding your arm up is quite exhausting and he wanted to give strong and long salutes at marches. (BTW, the reason he had a toothbrush mustache (even though many advised him to shave it because it provided cannon fodder for caricaturists) is because he thought his nose was big and a mustache distracted from it.) |
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Actually it was a common mustache style through the 1940s. It marked the wearer as a WWI trench veteran as it would fit under the gas mask. Until the outbreak of conflict with Germany in 1938 it was quite common in the UK and France as well as Germany, Austria, and Italy, as can easily be verified by any number of contemporaneous photos. Note that the toothbrush mustache was worn by veterans of all classes in Peaky Blinders, for example.
The small mustache actually accentuated the size of his nose, but he was proud (and it was valuable) for him to be a veteran.