oliviascarlet:

“At a League of Nations conference in 1933, Nazi Propaganda Minister  Joseph Goebbels remains seated while speaking to his interpreter.  German-born Alfred Eisenstaedt, later one of the founding photographers  of LIFE, recalled that Goebbels smiled at him until he learned that  Eisenstaedt was Jewish — a moment Eisenstaedt captured in this photo.  Suddenly, “he looked at me with hateful eyes and waited for me to  wither,” the photographer recalled. “But I didn’t wither.” Not only  didn’t he wither, he managed to take perhaps the most chilling portrait  of pure evil to run in LIFE’s pages.”

oliviascarlet:

“At a League of Nations conference in 1933, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels remains seated while speaking to his interpreter. German-born Alfred Eisenstaedt, later one of the founding photographers of LIFE, recalled that Goebbels smiled at him until he learned that Eisenstaedt was Jewish — a moment Eisenstaedt captured in this photo. Suddenly, “he looked at me with hateful eyes and waited for me to wither,” the photographer recalled. “But I didn’t wither.” Not only didn’t he wither, he managed to take perhaps the most chilling portrait of pure evil to run in LIFE’s pages.”

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