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How Hitler, Mussolini, Lenin and Chairman Mao used photo editing to aid their propaganda: Before-and-after images reveal how they carefully managed their image
In a time before photo-editing computer programs, some of the most iconic images in history had to be altered by hand:
The odd one out: Adolf Hitler and his minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, second from left, are seen laughing and joking with a group of people in this 1937 photo
Where's Joe? However, for unknown reasons, Hitler ordered that Goebbels be removed from the photo
I am a strong, independent, fascist dictator...: Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini is shown sitting on a horse
.. who don't need no man: It is believed that he had the handler edited out to give the impression of power and independence
I don't like you no Mao: Mao Zedong, right, also known as Chairman Mao and founder of modern-day China had this image from 1936 edited after he fell out with Po Ku, left
No smoke without fire: Winston Churchill making his famous two-fingered salute in the 1940s. Also famous is the cigar that was in his mouth, but it was edited out when the picture went on display outside the Britain At War Experience in London
Cleaning up their image: This iconic World War II image shows Soviet soldiers raising the hammer and sickle flag over the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, 1945 - and one particular detail has been removed
Bad loot: This is the original image, and shows the soldier bottom right with two wristwatches, one of which was edited out as it suggested looting had occurred before the photograph was taken and Stalin punished looters with execution
Missing majesty: Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King with the Queen Mother and King George VI in Alberta, Canada, 1939, left, and right, the edited version without the King which as used on an election poster. It is thought that the Prime Minister had the photo altered because a photo of just him and the Queen painted him in a more powerful light
Pics or it didn't happen: Joseph Stalin, right, added himself into a picture of an ailingVladimir Lenin at his dacha in 1922, to make it appear as if he had visited him shortly before his death
Same same, but different: This lithograph portrait of politician John Calhoun, left, was later used to composite an image of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, right
In a time before photo-editing computer programs, some of the most iconic images in history had to be altered by hand:
The odd one out: Adolf Hitler and his minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, second from left, are seen laughing and joking with a group of people in this 1937 photo
Where's Joe? However, for unknown reasons, Hitler ordered that Goebbels be removed from the photo
I am a strong, independent, fascist dictator...: Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini is shown sitting on a horse
.. who don't need no man: It is believed that he had the handler edited out to give the impression of power and independence
I don't like you no Mao: Mao Zedong, right, also known as Chairman Mao and founder of modern-day China had this image from 1936 edited after he fell out with Po Ku, left
No smoke without fire: Winston Churchill making his famous two-fingered salute in the 1940s. Also famous is the cigar that was in his mouth, but it was edited out when the picture went on display outside the Britain At War Experience in London
Cleaning up their image: This iconic World War II image shows Soviet soldiers raising the hammer and sickle flag over the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, 1945 - and one particular detail has been removed
Bad loot: This is the original image, and shows the soldier bottom right with two wristwatches, one of which was edited out as it suggested looting had occurred before the photograph was taken and Stalin punished looters with execution
Missing majesty: Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King with the Queen Mother and King George VI in Alberta, Canada, 1939, left, and right, the edited version without the King which as used on an election poster. It is thought that the Prime Minister had the photo altered because a photo of just him and the Queen painted him in a more powerful light
Pics or it didn't happen: Joseph Stalin, right, added himself into a picture of an ailingVladimir Lenin at his dacha in 1922, to make it appear as if he had visited him shortly before his death
Same same, but different: This lithograph portrait of politician John Calhoun, left, was later used to composite an image of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, right
