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»In 1933, I traveled to Lausanne and Geneva for the fifteenth session

of the League of Nations. There, sitting in the hotel garden, was
Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s minister of propaganda. He smiles, but
not at me. He was looking at someone to my left. … Suddenly he
spotted me and I snapped him. His expression changed. Here are the
eyes of hate. Was I an enemy? Behind him is his private secretary,
Walter Naumann, with the goatee, and Hitler’s interpreter, Dr. Paul

Schmidt. … I have been asked how I felt photographing these men.
Naturally, not so good, but when I have a camera in my hand I know
no fear.« (Eisenstaedt on Eisenstaedt)

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ALFRED EISENSTAEDT
(1898–1995)
Joseph Goebbels, Geneva 1933
Gelatin silver print, printed in the 1970s
24 × 16,5 cm (9.4 × 6.5 in)
Signed by the photographer in ink in the
margin, extensively titled by Eisenstaedt
in ink on the reverse: »Dr. Joseph
Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister of Propa-
ganda attending 15 League of Nation
th
meeting in Geneva, Sept. 1933. Bending
over with paper Hitler’s interpreter
Dr. Paul Schmidt, man behind Werner
Naumann, Goebbel’s private secretary«,
his »PHOTO BY ALFRED EISENSTAEDT«
stamp on the reverse
PROVENANCE
Eisenstaedt Family Estate
LITERATURE
Alfred Eisenstaedt, Witness to our Time,
New York 1966, p. 63; Monika Faber /
Janos Frecot (ed.), Portrait im Aufbruch,
Vienna 2005, p. 21.
* € 1.800 / € 3.000–4.000

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