The World's Most Photographed: Adolf Hitler

Series which unearths photographs previously lost or suppressed, to explore the power of the image and the nature of iconography. It decodes the carefully constructed public image of ten of the world's most photographed people to reveal more about the personalities, lives and intentions of the subjects. Adolf Hitler, the first state leader to have a totally manufactured image, used photography to hypnotise and corrupt a nation. In the 1930s, photographer Heinrich Hoffmann transformed the young camera-shy politician into a figure of absolute power, helping to mastermind one of the most successful campaigns of mass manipulation in history. Previously unseen private images of Hitler have been unearthed, taken by the photographers closest to him, including his mistress Eva Braun and his favourite photographer Walter Frentz - the man who had the opportunity to assassinate Hitler in 1944, but chose not to. episode 4