--- title: Nazi Christmas: Photos of Hitler and Other Celebrants at the Holidays description: Pictures, by Adolf Hitler's personal photographer, from a Christmas party thrown by Hitler for high-ranking members of the Nazi Party. canonical: https://time.com/3593189/photos-from-a-nazi-christmas-party/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2013-12-01T21:42:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:07:01.240Z og:title: Nazi Christmas: Photos of Hitler and Other Celebrants at the Holidays og:description: Pictures, by Adolf Hitler's personal photographer, from a Christmas party thrown by Hitler for high-ranking members of the Nazi Party. og:url: https://time.com/3593189/photos-from-a-nazi-christmas-party/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8f47aeb1c1f64087/698769650b72e32bcd6dbfc4/141118-hitler-nazi-christmas-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Nazi Christmas Party og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Nazi Christmas: Photos of Hitler and Other Celebrants at the Holidays twitter:description: Pictures, by Adolf Hitler's personal photographer, from a Christmas party thrown by Hitler for high-ranking members of the Nazi Party. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8f47aeb1c1f64087/698769650b72e32bcd6dbfc4/141118-hitler-nazi-christmas-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Photos From a Nazi Christmas Party > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Dec 1, 2013 9:42 PM UTC  Scene from a Christmas party attended by Adolf Hitler and other Nazis, date unknown. Scene from a Christmas party attended by Adolf Hitler and other Nazis, date unknown.Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Dec 1, 2013 9:42 PM UTC The images are chilling, bordering on surreal: Surrounded by fellow Nazis, Adolf Hitler presides over a Christmas party. Swastika armbands jarringly offset the glint of ornaments and tinsel; candles illuminate the festive scene. Confronted with the scene, a viewer might reasonably ask: How could Nazi leaders reconcile an ideology of hatred and conquest with the joyous spirit of the holiday — much less its celebration of the birth of the Jewish Christ? _We cannot accept that a German Christmas tree has anything to do with a crib in a manger in Bethlehem. It is inconceivable for us that Christmas and all its deep soulful content is the product of an oriental religion._ Those were words of Nazi propagandist Friedrich Rehm in 1937, arguing that “real” Germans should remove any vestiges of “oriental” religion from the holiday by harking back to the pagan _Yule_, an ancient Northern European festival of the winter solstice. (An eye-opening 2009 exhibit at Cologne’s National Socialism Documentation Centre featured early Nazi propaganda attempts to make over the holiday: swastika-shaped cookie-cutters; sunburst tree-toppers, to replace the traditional ornament Nazis feared looked too much like the Star of David; rewritten lyrics to carols that excised all references to Christ.) But by the time Hitler, Mussolini and the Japanese had dragged the Allies into the Second World War, the Reich’s focus had shifted to more practical matters. Rather than trying to dissuade millions of Germans from celebrating Christmas the way they had for generations, Hitler, Goebbels and the rest instead encouraged their compatriots to send cards and care packages to the troops. [\[See more photos by Hitler’s personal photographer, Hugo Jaeger, in the gallery, “The Brink of Oblivion: Inside Nazi-Occupied Poland, 1939-1940”\]](http://life.time.com/history/world-war-ii-color-photos-from-nazi-occupied-poland-1939-1940/#1) As for the religious views of Hitler himself, the evidence is hardly conclusive: In public statements he sometimes praised Christianity (once calling it “the foundation of our national morality”), but in private conversations — including one recalled by the Third Reich’s official architect, Albert Speer — the Führer is said to have abhorred the faith for what he deemed its “meekness and flabbiness.” Hitler did, of course, fervently worship one thing above all else: the so-called Aryan race. Looking at the utterly banal, ordinary faces and figures in these photographs, however, it’s hard to believe that _anyone_, no matter how fanatical or deluded, could believe that the men at that long-ago holiday party comprised anything more than a roomful of gangsters and common thugs.  Scene from a Christmas party attended by Adolf Hitler and other Nazis, date unknown. Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Scene from a Christmas party attended by Adolf Hitler and other Nazis, date unknown. Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Scene from a Christmas party attended by Adolf Hitler and other Nazis, date unknown. Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Scene from a Christmas party attended by Adolf Hitler and other Nazis, date unknown. Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Scene from a Christmas party attended by Adolf Hitler and other Nazis, date unknown. Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Scene from a Christmas party attended by Adolf Hitler and other Nazis, date unknown. 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