Ohio Paper Prints 1933 Hitler Photos

The Vindicator in Youngstown on Sunday printed a series of photographs of Adolf Hitler, Field Marshal Hermann Goering and friends, believed to have been taken at Hitler’s residence in the Bavarian mountains in 1933 and never before published.

The newspaper said it obtained the photos from a roll of 35-millimeter film that an American tank commander from Youngstown, Paul N. Romack, found in a desk drawer in an abandoned home in Kufstein, Austria, in May, 1945, and later shipped home.

“The overwhelming weight of the internal evidence in the photographs suggest . . . that they were taken in and around Hitler’s residence, then still known as Haus Wachenfeld, over a period of perhaps several days during the summer of 1933--six months after Hitler came to power,” Dr. Charles W. Sydnor Jr., president of Emory & Henry College in Emory, Va., and an authority on the Hitler years, wrote in a copyright article that accompanied the photos.

Others identified in the pictures include Wilhelm Brueckner, Hitler’s adjutant; Johanna Wolff, Hitler’s secretary, and Julius Schreck, one of Hitler’s early associates.