Adolf Hitler's personal photographer's collection of images of Polish Jews emerge Hitler was impressed by Jaeger's work and declared: "The future belongs to colour photography." Jaeger hid his photographs in an empty bottle of brandy. When confronted by a group of American soldiers who could have found his pictures of Hitler and arrested him, he decided to bury the photographs in 12 glass jars outside of Munich. He came back to check on them on a regular basis. In 1965 Jaeger sold his photographs to Life magazine. In 1942 Operation Reinhardt, the Fuhrer's "final solution" to eliminate all of Poland's Jews, began.