Rare pictures of Hitler emerge from glass photo negatives, like parts of a puzzle

Richard E. Schneider carefully spread the broken pieces of the glass photo negative on the light table at the National Archives and, wearing green rubber gloves, put them together like the parts of a puzzle.

A ghostly image emerged that Schneider recognized. “The face, and the mustache, and those eyes,” he said. It was Adolf Hitler, sitting stiffly in an upholstered arm chair, his German shepherd at his side.