Karl August Hanke was a German Nazi official and politician who served as the fifth and final Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel. He also served as Gauleiter of Gau Lower Silesia from 1941 to 1945 and
Hanke in 1945
Reichsminister Goebbels has a meeting with his Staatssekretär, Walther Funk, in his office at the Ministry. In the background, Referent des Ministers Karl Hanke takes a call.
Gauleiter Hanke addresses a new battalion of Volkssturm in Breslau, February 1945
Delegation of German officers walking for negotiations before capitulation of Festung Breslau, 6 May 1945
Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German politician and philologist who was the Gauleiter of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 until his suicide i
Karl Hanke
…Party. He went to work full-time for the party. By late 1931, he was Kreisleiter (ward leader) of Westend in Berlin, working under Berlin's Gauleiter Joseph Goebbels. In 1932, Hanke was made chief Gau organizational director and on 1 April 1932, personal adjutant and Referent (advisor) to Goebbels in his capacity…
Goebbels speaks at a political rally (1932). This body position, with arms akimbo, was intended to show the speaker as being in a position of authority.
Goebbels giving a speech in Lustgarten, Berlin, August 1934. This hand gesture was used while delivering a warning or threat.
Goebbels used the death of Horst Wessel (pictured) in 1930 as a propaganda tool against "Communist subhumans".