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The Bernile Photos

Hitler's 'little friend'

Rosa Bernile Nienau

By Jaap van den Born en Bart FM Droog, November 15,  2018
Updated: March 18, 2019

Introduction | The name issue | The Hoffmann photos
David Irving | Don Boyle | Statements of auction house
Washington Post failed to consult right expert 
More copies of same photo - different handwriting
The auction in 2018 | Summary of provenance
Heinrich Hoffmann about Bernile | More Bernile photos

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Introduction

In 1933-1936 many Hitler adorers traveled to Berchtesgaden in Bavaria, where Hitler owned Haus Wachenfeld, a villa on the Obersalzberg ('berg' meaning 'mountain'). From his terrace he watched the crowd - and sometimes he invited selected people to have tea with him.

One of them was the seven year old girl Bernile Nienau, who was taken to the Obersalzberg by her mother. Hitler's personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann found her very photogenic and took for propaganda and financial reasons a large number of photos of Hitler with the girl.

There was only one problem. The girl had a Jewish grandmother, and was therefore not 'aryan'. Therefore mother and daughter Nienau were denied further access to Hitler. The girl (probably with the help of her mother) did, however, continue to write letters (signed Berni, not Rosa) to Hitler, who were answered by Hitler's chief adjudant,  SS-officer Wilhelm Brückner.

In 1938 all contact stopped.

Berni Nienau died on 5 October 1943 in Munich. Her mother Karoline Nienau-Helwig died in 1962. They are buried in the still existing Nienau family grave at the Westfriedhof in Munich.

Sources:

Volker Dahm [et alia]. Die tödliche Utopie : Bilder, Texte, Dokumente, Daten zum Dritten Reich / [Dokumentation Obersalzberg]. Verl. Dokumentation Obersalzberg im Inst. für Zeitgeschichte, München/Berlin, 2008 (5th revised and extented edition).
Heinrich Hoffmann. Hitler wie ich ihn sah. Aufzeichnungen seines Leibfotografen. Herbig, München, 1974. page 165-166. German edition; original edition is titled Hitler was my friend. Translated by Lt.-Col. R.H. Stevens. Burke, Londen, 1955. 
Peter Hoffmann. Hitler’s Personal Security. Journal of Contemporary History. Vol. 8, No. 2 (Apr., 1973), Page 30.
Justina Schreiber. Das blonde Mädel Bernile Nienau. Bayern 2. Bayerischer Rundfunk, 27-10-2013.
https://www.br.de/radio/bayern2/sendungen/land-und-leute/hitler-und-bernile-nienau-schreiber100.html
James Wilson. Hitler's Alpine Headquarters. Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley, 2013 (updated edition first edition published in 2005).

The name issue

Bernile Nienau's official name was Rosa Bernile Nienau. She was called Bernile or Berni. In his memoires Hoffmann named her wrongly Berneli. As far as is known no one called her by her official first name, Rosa.

Der lieben und [undecipherable]
Rosa Nienau
[signature]

Yet, this name is handwritten on the photo which was sold on November 13, 2018. This is a clear indication of its doubtful nature, as using a wrong name is a typical forger's mistake.

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The Hoffmann photos

Heinrich Hoffmann ran his personal Nazi media company, 'Heinrich Hoffmann. Verlag national-sozialistischer Bilder' (Publishing house for national socialist images), which employed 300 workers. He became NSDAP-member in 1920, and he had many privileges. He was Hitler's personal art advisor. Hitler gave him the 'Professor' title in 1938.

Books with photo's of Hitler and Bernile and postcards with the dictator and the child were sold in huge quantities. For this they don't have much value: hundreds (maybe even thousands) of these photo postcards and book copies still exist.

In 1934 the Bernile photos were published for the first time in a book, in Jugend um Hitler. In 1937 the Bernile photos appeared in the American magazine Life (see underneath).

Sources:

Heinrich Hoffmann. Jugend um Hitler. 120 Bilddokumente aus der Umgebung des Führers. Aufgenommen, zusammengestelt und herausgegeben von Heinrich Hoffmann, Reichsbildberichterstatter der N.S.D.A.P. Geleitwort Baldur von Schirach, Jugendführer des Deutschen Reiches. "Zeitheschichte" Verlag und Vertriebs-Gesellschaft M.B.H., Berlin W35, [1934].
https://jugend1918-1945.de/portal/ARCHIV/thema.aspx?bereich=archiv&root=8879&id=15980&redir=
Speaking of pictures... this is "Jugend um Hitler". Life magazine, Chicago, December 6, 1937. Volume 3, number 23. Page 7. 
Heinrich Hoffmann. Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum), Berlin. [Seen 14-11-2018].
https://www.dhm.de/archiv/magazine/fotografen/hhoffmann.html

With thanks to Jo Rivett, www.parteiabzeichen.ch

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David Irving

On December 29, 2007 the English 'historian' David Irving published the photo of Hitler and Bernile, with a handwritten text on it and flowers glued unto it, on his site, Radical's Diary.

David Irving is rather controversial. He was convicted several times in at least three European countries (Austria, Germany and the United Kingdom) for his neo Nazi activities.

He wrote:

"Last week I had a package from Don B., who lives in darkest Pennsylvania. (...) Don has just acquired the papers of Bernile Nienau's mother, and it contains the most extraordinary pictures, sent by Hitler and suitably embellished, to the mother and daughter -- about whom I shall reserve the most significant fact until last. Rosa Bernile Nienau -- she did not use her first name - and her mother visited Hitler from 1932 until 1938. Adolf and Bernile shared the same birthday, April 20."

This raises the following questions:
- Does this Don B. exist at all?
- How came the papers from the in 1962 deceased mother of Bernile in his possession? Or is this story a mere concoction?

The copy of the Hoffmann photo with flowers on Irving's site. It is exactly the same picture (with attached flowers and a handwritten text)   which was sold by Alexander Historical Auctions on November 13, 2018 for $ 11,250.-

Irving continued:

"The first photo in the original Hoffmann folder," writes Don, "is addressed to Rosa's mother, Frau K. Nienau, Doctor's widow, of Munich, Laimer Strasse 31, ground floor". The photo was taken in 1933 and has Hitlers favorite flower the Edelweiss attached to it. It has a hand dedication by Hitler which reads: Der lieben und braven Rosa Nienau, Adolf Hitler, München, den 16/ Juni 1933 (To my darling and good Rosa Nienau, Munich, June 16, 1933. Adolf Hitler)."

This raises even more questions: why did Hitler name her 'Rosa'? Everyone called her Bernile or Berni. To us, this is a clear indication that the picture with the handwritten text is a fabrication, made by a rather stupid forger, who used the wrong name when he wrote the text on this authentic picture, somewhere after 1945.

 But this is not all. Irving:

"Hitler glued Edelweiss, white heather, to two of the photos, and the flora are still adhering to the pictures in the frames that Don has acquired. They have the original Heinrich Hoffmann imprints on the back."

Imagine this: one of the most brutal dicatators ever glueing flowers on a postcard for a little child. This is also a typical forger's error: in their desire to make an item look as authentic as can be, they often make it to good to be true. As in this case.

Then, Irving presents another photo of Bernile and Hitler,

with this text:

"In 1936 they visited the Berghof, and Hitler gave her a photograph taken of their first visit four years earlier, to the then "Haus Wachenfeld", in 1932. It also has Edelweiss attached to it. This time Hitler's dedication reads: Der lieben Gretele, Adolf Hitler, Obersalzberg 1936-- To the darling Gretel. Adolf Hitler, Obersalzberg, 1936, a possible reference to the Hansl and Gretl story."

Indeed, this is a clear indication that the whole story of the postcards with attached flowers is a fairy tale.

Who concocted it is and will probably remain unknown, but the culprit had certainly some sense of humor. A rather sick sense of humor, though, as this fabrication/falsification is pure nazi propaganda, aimed at spreading the image of Hitler as a humane character, who was ever so friendly to the German youth.

Truth is, Hitler marched hunderds of thousands of them straight into their graves. There's no love in that.

Source: David Irving. December 29, 2007 (Saturday). Radical's Diary.
http://www.fpp.co.uk/docs/Irving/RadDi/2007/301207.html

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Don B. - Don Boyle

The mysterious Don B. mentioned by David Irving is the American Don Boyle, a.k.a. Donald Boyle, a trader in alleged Nazi militaria and memorabilia.  He admitted in December 2018 to the Washington Post, that he had once owned the photo and traded it in 2007 to  Jeff Clark, a Arizona based trader in alleged Nazi party uniforms.

According to Boyle, it was Clark who consigned the photo to the owner of Alexander Historical Auctions, Bill Panagopulos.

Clark however, denied to the Washington Post that he was the consignor.

Sources

Donald Boyle's CoA-business: www.sshonorring.com/authentication.php
Jeff Clark's online shop: www.nsdapuniforms.com

Ian Shapira. History or hatred? Selling Hitler’s belongings and Nazi artifacts stirs a
backlash. Washington Post, Washington, 27-12-2018.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/history-or-hatred-selling-hitlers-belongings-and-nazi-artifacts-stirs-a-backlash/2018/12/26/b0c21932-f27d-11e8-aeea-b85fd44449f5_story.html?utm_term=.5db32be3700d

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Amazing statements of the Auctionhouse

The Washington Post interviewed Andreas Kornfeld, Alexander Historical Auctions' vice president of sales, who said that the photograph's backstory stunned him when he learned it.

"It's probably one of the most unique items I’ve seen in my time with the auction house," Kornfeld said. “Being German, I’d never heard the story, and I’ve seen the picture many times, but it would never have occurred to me the story behind the picture, which is mind-blowing."

Which is strange - as the story of Bernile Nienau was already published in 2005, and many times thereafter, in English and German, in books, magazines, newspapers, on paper as well as online. Even more strange is what another employee of same auction house told to the British newspaper Daily Mail:

"The signed version is a never-before publicly seen piece."

This is strange too, as this particular copy of the photo, with flowers and handwritten text, can be found online since 2007, when it was published by the notorious David Irving.

One more bizarre statement

"I've seen hundreds of Hitler autographs. I am confident in the signature," Bill Panagopulos of Alexander Historical Auctions said. "And if I'm wrong? I'm on the hook in perpetuity. We offer
a one-hundred percent warranty of authenticity."

Sources

The Jewish girl who blinded the Fuhrer to his own warped ideology: Nazi leader embraces child who called him 'Uncle Hitler'... despite his persecution of the Jews. The Daily Mail, London, 07-11-2018.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6362929/Astonishing-photo-Adolf-Hitler-smiling-hugging-Jewish-girl.html
Ian Shapira. 'The Führer’s child’: How Hitler came to embrace a girl with Jewish roots. The Washington Post, Washington, 13-11-2018.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/11/13/the-fuhrers-child-how-hitler-came-adore-girl-with-jewish-roots/
Ian Shapira. History or hatred? Selling Hitler’s belongings and Nazi artifacts stirs a
backlash. Washington Post, Washington, 27-12-2018.

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Washington Post failed to consult right expert

Ira Shapira of The Washington Post consulted shortly after the auction the British graphologist Elaine Quigley, chairwoman of the British Institute of Graphologists. According to her the  inscription on the Bernile photo does match with some of Hitler’s earlier known handwriting, especially his autograph.

But Quiqley is a classic graphologist, not a forensic handwriting expert. Her skills in recognizing handwritings are not very impressive, as an incident from 2005 tells.

After she was presented doodles allegedly made by former British prime minister Tony Blair, but in fact made by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, she read Blair character out of them: "He is struggling to concentrate and his mind is going everywhere, but he knows he will get to the bottom of the problems in time. (...) The most readable of his doodles are the points that he believes will catch the public interest."

Even after both Tony Blair and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had declared that these doodles were made by Bill Gates, Mrs. Quigley wasn't convinced: "I find it very strange to think that it was by Bill Gates as it does not seem the sort of thing that he would do."

This clearly illustrates the difference between classic graphology and forensic graphology / forensic handwriting expertise. What the difference is, is clearly stated on the Russian based site Graphologypro.com:

"Graphology is mostly a psychological discipline and aims to find a connection between a person’s writing and personality. A graphologist analyses handwriting to discover skills and aptitudes of the author of the written text, and about his psychological and emotional state."

Forensic Graphology analyses handwriting and drawing movement skills to solve tasks in forensic examination of texts and signatures. A forensic handwriting analyst should be able to identify whether a piece of text or a signature was written by one person or different people, and to confirm forgery or genuineness of a signature."

Graphology is not science. Many times analyses by graphologists are correct, but many times they are not. Furthermore, every bona fide graphologist is aware of the limitations of his or her skills, and will for authentication issues refer to a forensic graphologist.

We told Mr. Shapira of The Washington Post all of this and much more, we helped him also by translating the letters (allegedly from 1951) accompanying the photo. Unfortunately all he did with the information we supplied to him was quoting three words from one of us: "Counterfeit Nazi junk', without explaining how we reached this conclusion.

This all makes the Washington Post article a de facto authentication of the Bernile contraption, an authentication based on statements by a unqualified 'expert' and a rather dubious auctioneer. 

Sources

Andrew Sparrow. Blair blames Gates for 'day-dreamer' doodle. The Telegraph, London. January 31, 2005.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1482407/Blair-blames-Gates-for-day-dreamer-doodle.html
Graphology and Forensic. What is the difference? Graphologypro.com, Moscow. [Seen 17-03-2019]
http://graphologypro.com/choice/graphology-and-forensic-what-is-the-difference.html
E-mail correspondence and telephone conversations Bart FM Droog and Ian Shapira, 15-11-2018 to 02-01-2019.
Ian Shapira. History or hatred? Selling Hitler’s belongings and Nazi artifacts stirs a
backlash. Washington Post, Washington, 27-12-2018.
Bart FM Droog - Nog even over de bloemetjesfoto van Adolf Hitler. The Washington Post laat een pseudowetenschapper aan het woord. The Post Online, Amsterdam, 06-01-2019.
https://tpo.nl/2019/01/06/bart-fm-droog-nog-even-over-de-bloemetjesfoto-van-adolf-hitler/

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Same photo with 'Hitler's handwriting' - but in a totally different style, and without flowers

On the American based site Germania International (PO Box 68, Lakemont, GA 30552), Third Reich memorabilia can be bought. Including items signed by Adolf Hitler, or by people who have imitated his signature. It's quite a pastime for some folks, apparently.

Anyhow: the company behind this site sold the same picture of Bernile and Hitler as was sold in Chesapeake, November 2018. With even more elaborated 'proof'. This one had no flowers attached, but carried a handwritten text and signature attributed to Hitler.

What strikes the most is that the style of the handwritten text is completely different than on the copy published by Irving in 2007 (and sold in 2018).

The Irving copy (2007), sold by Alexander Historical Auctions (2018)	Right: Germania-item AHSIG 1-8

One might ask the question: which is the authentic one? But that's the wrong question.

Almost no handwritten texts other than signatures from Hitler, after he had risen to power in 1933, exist.

So what seems to be the case with these photos is that two different enterprising forgers bought authentic Hoffmann photos, wrote texts on it, and then claimed these texts were written by Hitler.

Source: Item AHSIG 1-8. 'Germania', PO Box 68, Lakemont, GA 30552, USA . [Seen 14-11-2018].
http://www.germaniainternational.com/hitlersigned.html

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The auction in 2018

Alexander Historical Auctions (Chesapeake, Maryland, USA) has a long history of selling works, material and documents attributed to Hitler. From watercolors and documents to underpants.

These works are mostly auctioned with the works 'attributed to Hitler' - which is basically true, because this doesn't mean that the items are authentic. Yet this time no such reservation was made:

"An absolutely stunning and shocking signed photograph, a famous Heinrich Hoffmann image of Hitler smiling and warmly embracing a young Jewish girl, inscribed by him in dark blue ink: “The dear and[considerate?] Rosa Nienau Adolf Hitler Munich, the 16th June 1933”. (...) This signed photograph has been further embellished with the addition of nine edelweiss flowers and a four-leaf clover which were applied to the photo by the young girl. (...) She quickly developed a close and warm friendship with her “Uncle Hitler” which lasted until 1938."

To give all these claims credibility, the auction house added this:

"Indeed, the Bundesarchiv retains 17 letters from her to Hitler and aide Wilhelm Bruckner between 1935 and 1938."

  
It is true that letters from Bernile Nienau (or her mother) can be found in the Bundesarchiv, but there's no evidence suggesting they went further than the office of Hitler's adjudant Wilhelm Brückner.

There's also not a shred of evidence that the flowers were glued on this photo by Hitler himself (which was stated in 2007) or by Bernile (as stated in 2018).  

With this deceiving information this auction gained world wide press attention. Which alerted costumers for this and other so called 'authentic' Hitler material, and may well explain why this rather valueless picture was sold for $ 11,250.-.

Lot #1: Adolf Hitler inscribes a photo to Rosa Berline Nienau - a young Jewish girl who became his sweetheart". Alexander Historical Auctions, 13-11-2018.
http://www.alexautographs.com/ADOLF_HITLER_INSCRIBES_A_PHOTO_TO_ROSA
_BERNILE_NIE-LOT40056.aspx

Bart FM Droog. Zo trapten media als het AD in de mythe van Adolf Hitler en zijn Joodse vriendinnetje. Dergelijke berichtgeving is koren op de molen van Holocaustontkenners. The Post Online, Amsterdam, 14-11-2018.
https://tpo.nl/2018/11/14/zo-trapten-media-als-het-ad-in-de-mythe-van-adolf-hitler-en-zijn-joodse-vriendinnetje/

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Summary of the provenance

1932 or 1933 - Heinrich Hoffmann photographs Hitler and Bernile Nienau. It's in the 1930's depicted in several books and magazines and can be bought as postcard throughout Germany.

(allegedly) 1951 - In letters from the 'Organisationsbüro Otto Hübner' and 'Olympia-Woche' the Bernile Nienau photo (without the flowers)  is mentioned.

Yet, what's written in these letters strongly suggests they are written after the publication of Heinrich Hoffmanns memoires, in 1955.

Furthermore - one of these letters is written on paper from the magazine of the German Olympic Committee - which doesn't make any sense at all: 

 

the other letter: 1.

2.



A collection of autographs 'from the legacy of Otto Hübner' was auctioned in 2013. The collection of names in this collection raises the suspicion that it is composed of forgeries and that this 'Otto Hübner' either never existed or that his name is abused by a forger. 
Autographensammlung aus dem Nachlass Otto Hübner, München. Lot-tissimo, [09-05-2013].
https://lot-tissimo.com/de/i/6441763

1962 - Bernile's mother, Karoline Nienau-Helwig dies on July 26, 1962, at the age of 70. After her death the letters SS-officer Wilhelm Brückner had send to her daughter end up in the Bundesarchiv. If the photo with glued on edelweiss flowers had been authentic, it would logically have ended up there, too.

2007 - The American Nazi militaria and memorabilia dealer Don Boyle acquires the photo with glued on edelweiss flowers. From whom or from where is unknown. According to him he sold it to another dealer, Jeff Clark. Mr Clark however denies this.

2018 - Someone sells the photo and accompanying letters via Alexander Historical Auctions to "the top bidder of the photo, who lives in Britain" (according to Washington Post, 27-12-2018).

Sources

Lot #1: Adolf Hitler inscribes a photo to Rosa Berline Nienau - a young Jewish girl who became his sweetheart". Alexander Historical Auctions, 13-11-2018.
http://www.alexautographs.com/ADOLF_HITLER_INSCRIBES_A_PHOTO_TO_ROSA
_BERNILE_NIE-LOT40056.aspx
Nienau, Rosa Bernhardine "Berni". World war II Graves. [Seen 17-03-2019]
https://ww2gravestone.com/people/nienau-rosa-bernile/

Ian Shapira. History or hatred? Selling Hitler’s belongings and Nazi artifacts stirs a
backlash. Washington Post, Washington, 27-12-2018.

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The relevant passages from Hoffmanns book - in German and English

Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler, wie ich ihn sah. Aufzeichnungen seines Leibfotografen. Seite 165-166:

"War Hitler gut aufgelegt, so liess er sich Kinder aus der Menge [bei dem Obersalzberg] hohlen, die dann auf der Terrasse mit Tee, Eis und Küchen bewirtet wurden. Wie immer machte Ich unzählige Aufnahmen von diesen Kinderbesuchen.

Eines tages hatte Hitler ein hübsches, kleines Mädchen, das ihm unter der Menge ausgefallen war, zu sich kommen lassen. Er plauderte mit ihm und lud es mit seiner Mutter ein, ihn öfter zu besuchen.

Die kleine Berneli wurde Hitlers ausgesprochener Liebling. Ein Grund mehr für mich, zu fotografieren, wenn er sich mit ihr auf der Terrasse unterhielt.

Ein übereifriger Parteigenosse, der die Familie Bernelis kannte, hatte nichts Eiligeres zu tun, als ausgerechnet Bormann mitzuteilen, dass das Kind nicht rein arisch sei. Obwohl Bernelis Vater als Offizier I. Klasse ausgezeichnet war, untersagte Bormann daraufhin sofort der Mutter, weiter mit der Kleinen auf der Berghof zu kommen. Seiner Art entsprechend erliess er das Verbot, ohne Hitler mit einem Wort davon zu verständigen. Einige Zeit später erkündigte sich Hitler nach seiner kleinen Freundin. Bormann gab ausweichende Antworten.

Zum Konflikt kam es erst, als Bormann das Bild der kleinen Berneli in meinem Buch 'Jugend um Hitler' [1934] sah. Aufgeregt forderte er, das Bild sofort zu entfernen. Ich erklärte dass dies technisch unmöglich sei. Da verlangte er, dass die gesamte Auflage eingestämpft würde.

Das ging zu weit! Ich wandte mich an Hitler, legte ihm den ganzen Sachverhalt klar und erbat seine Stellungnahme. Wie immer wenn er eine peinliche Situation gebracht wurde, war er erbost. Sein Zorn richtete sich gegen den Denunzianten. Hätte dieser nichts gesagt, wäre alles in bester Ordnung gewesen. So musste Hitler sich konsequent zeigen, konnte also das Kind nicht mehr einladen. Aus meinem Buch aber brauchte das Bild Bernelis nicht entfernt zu werden.

Zu mir sagte Hitler resigniert: "Es gibt Leute, die ein wahres Talent haben, mir jede Freude zu verderben!"

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English translation (via Google Translate, slightly edited):

"If Hitler was in a good mood, he had children from the crowd [at the Obersalzberg] ordered up, who were then treated to tea, ice cream, and cookies on the terrace. As usual, I took countless pictures of these children's visits.

One day Hitler had a pretty little girl, who he had drawn his attention in the crowd, come up to him. He chatted with her and invited her mother to visit him more often.

Little Berneli became Hitler's outspoken favorite. One more reason for me to take pictures when Hitler spent time with her on the terrace.

An overzealous party member who knew the family Bernelis, had nothing more urgent to do than tell Bormann that the child was not of pure Aryan blood. Although Berneli's father was distinguished as an officer 1st class, Bormann then immediately prohibited the mother to continue to come with the little girl on the Berghof. In accordance with his nature, he issued a ban on informing Hitler about this. Some time later, Hitler inquired about his little friend. Bormann gave evasive answers.

The conflict came only when Bormann saw the image of little Berneli in my book 'Jugend um Hitler'. Excited, he demanded to remove the picture immediately. I explained that this was technically impossible.He demanded that the entire edition would be destroyed.

That went too far! I turned to Hitler, clarified the whole matter to him and asked for his opinion. As always when he was brought to an embarrassing situation, he was angry. His anger was directed against the informer. Had this person kept his mouth shut, everything would have been fine. As Hitler had to behave consistently, he couldn't invite the child anymore. The picture of Berneli shouldn't be removed from my book.

To me, Hitler said resignedly: "There are some people who have a positive genius for spoiling all my little pleasures!"

Source

Heinrich Hoffman. Hitler wie ich ihn sah. Aufzeichnungen seines Leibfotografen. Herbig, [München/Berlin], [1974]. Page 165-166. Previously published as: Hitler was my friend. Translated by Lt.-Col. R.H. Stevens. Burke, Londen, 1955.

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More photos of Bernile

Eightteen photo's of Bernile - or different girls resembling her - by Heinrich Hoffmann, as welll as a photo of her gravestone can be found on
http://www.thirdreichruins.com/berghofvisitors.htm

Photos of Hitler and other childern

Bernile Nienau was not the only child who was photographed in the company of Hitler. The British tabloid The Sun published on March 31, 2017 an anthology of these pictures. The newspaper presented them as 'rare' - which they are definitely not:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3222051/rare-adolf-hitler-propaganda-pictures-posing-with-kids/

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