New Hitler pictures to go under the hammer

Hundreds of never-seen-before photographs of Adolf Hitler are expected to fetch a six-figure sum when they go under the hammer in the new year.

The photographs, along with negatives, were taken by the Nazi leader's personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann during the party's rise to powers before the Second World War, and include party celebrations, images of the 1936 Olympics and Hitler attending an SS officers training school.

Auctioneer Jonathan Humbert, of JP Humbert Auctioneers, said: they were a previously-unseen view of Hitler during his rise to power. "We've got somewhere around 800 negatives and maybe 600 stills, some from these negatives and other stills that don't have a negative that they were developed from," he said. The pictures are due to go under the hammer at the auction house's showroom in Towcester, Northamptonshire, on January 18.