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Ron Nasty said
Here is a shot that shows Adolf in place.

You can see his legs are in front, and partially obscure, those of Larry Bell.

Here is another shot after Johnny Weissmuller had been added, and Hitler removed.

As can be seen, Weissmuller is slid in behind Bell, and Bell’s legs are clear of obstruction.

Whatever Robert Fraser’s memory, the photographs show that Hitler was removed rather than obscured by The Beatles standing in front of him.

@Billy Rhythm 

 

 

 

That’s not to say that he wasn’t inserted back in once The Beatles were ready to pose for the shot, again, I’m gonna prefer the first-hand account over second-hand interpretations of “documentation” that’s incomplete.  The censored cut-out is standing by at close proximity as though it’s going to be placed in somewhere..:-)

Ron Nasty said 

It was a heavily photographed session, there are multiple shots of The Beatles posing. The area in which they stand is shown throughout, and there is no sign of Hitler in any of the alternate shots – however much of the area that was covered by where they stood in the shot that was used is shown. I think photographic evidence carries more weight than one person’s memory.

@Billy Rhythm 

 

I don’t agree, perhaps if the session was filmed it’d be different but the censored cut-out doesn’t appear in any of the “outtakes” because it wasn’t supposed to.  They had no idea which “take” was going to be used until the film was developed (yes, people had to develop their photos in darkrooms back then) and every shot was potentially “the ONE” and easily explains why you don’t see the cut-out, because it was decided that it was too controversial to be seen.  The interview clip that I referenced says “he’s behind the four Beatles”, now that could also mean the Madame Toussauds Beatle Wax Figures, but he remembers hiding the cut-out “behind the four Beatles”.  I wish that I could link the interview clip for you but this is the best that I can do  http://sidmchenry.podomatic.com/  and unfortunately this podcast is a work in progress and the next volume to be cast (#9) contains the clip and hasn’t been made available yet.  Being a 1981 Radio Program dates the clip less than 14 years after the shoot and it’s doubtful that Robert Fraser’s memory would be so clouded, considering that this would be a lifetime achievement of his that he’d likely remember quite clearly.  Just because there’s no photographic evidence proving his claim doesn’t mean that he made something like that up, nobody else who was there to my knowledge refutes this happening so I don’t see any reason to doubt it because of the photos.  If you were to take every photo taken that day and strung them together into a video, giving each 3 seconds, how long do you think that that video would play out?  Nowhere near as long as the time spent staging the set for those photographs, yes the “photographic evidence” is incomplete…:-)