Hitler's Face: The Biography of an ImageIn Hitler's Face Claudia Schmlders reverses the normal protocol of biography: instead of using visual representations as illustrations of a life, she takes visuality as her point of departure to track Adolf Hitler from his first arrival in Munich as a nattily dressed young man to his end in a Berlin bunker and beyond. Perhaps never before had the image of a political leader been so carefully engineered and manipulated, so broadly disseminated as was