ADOLF HITLER (1889 - 1945) Fuhrer of Germany and Nazi Party leader Hitler's bloody rise to power his military seizure of most of Europe and North Africa and his genocidal racial policies culminated in suicide in his Berlin bunker as Russian troops approached. Early S.P. 3 1/4"" x 5"" b/w a waist up pose showing Hitler in a dark suit and seated in a chair. Boldly signed in black ink at top-right. The photograph was taken in 1931 during an interview with New York Evening Post correspondent H. R. Knickerbocker by American photographer James Edward Abbe. Mounted.