HEINRICH HOFFMANN (September 1885, 12 - December 15, 1957) was Adolf Hitler’s official photographer, a Nazi politician and publisher. As a member of Hitler’s intimate circle, Hoffman’s photographs played an important part of Hitler’s propaganda campaign to present himself and the Nazi Party as a significant mass phenomenon. Born in Fürth, Bavaria, Germany, Hoffmann’s father owned a photographic shop in Munich and introduced him to photography. He began working in his father’s shop as a photographer in 1908. He joined the Nazi Party in 1920 and found himself serving in the function of photographer in many party events. He soon befriended Adolf Hitler and secured a position as the party’s official photographer, gaining vast wealth from collected royalty proceeds, particularly those from photographs of Hitler. In 1929, Hoffmann introduced Evan Braun to Hitler, who would later become his wife. In 1933, he was elected to the Reichstag, and in 1938, Hitler granted him the title professor. As he became an influential figure in the Nazi Party, he continued to take photographs of Nazi Party leaders and events throughout the 1930s and the first half of the 1940s. On 10 May 1945, Hoffmann was arrested by the Americans, tried, and found guilty of war profiteering. He was released from prison in 1951 and settled in the small village of Epfach outside of Munich, where he passed away 7 years later, aged 72. RICHARD HENRY STEVENS (April 9, 1893 - February 12, 1967) was a multilingual Major in the British Army and former Head of the Passport Control Office (PCO) of the British Secret Intelligence Service in the Netherlands. He worked as an Intelligence Officer in India before being put in charge of the SIS station in The Hague in 1939. Following five years of captivity in Sachsenhausen and Dachau, he left the army as a lieutenant-colonel and worked as a translator at NATO in Paris and London from 1951-1952. He died in 1967, aged 73.