WWII photos in color.

[Arkon]

http://demonicious.com/20090210/wwii-in-pictures/

Very cool to see these photos in color.  I have a friend who served in WWII as a chaplains assistant and it is amazing to listen to his stories...seeing these photos in color is almost surreal.

[Daehawk]

Seeing them in color its like its not real. WW2 and before the whole world was black and white to me.

[Lee]

Awesome, thanks for posting them.

[CeeKay]

Seeing them in color its like its not real. WW2 and before the whole world was black and white to me.

yeah, it's weird seeing the WW2 film footage colorized.

[ATB]

Incredible find.

I don't think the photos are colorized. I think they're authentic.

Also it says that most of the photos are of the allied camp....nearly all of them are German troops.

[Arkon]

Incredible find.

I don't think the photos are colorized. I think they're authentic.

Also it says that most of the photos are of the allied camp....nearly all of them are German troops.

Yeah I had noticed that and forgot to mention it, the "caption" was wrong.

[Harkonis]

Those are pretty amazing.

btw at least one of those pictures is colorized.  The one with the guys at a small table and the lady pouring a drink is.  You can tell by the odd contrasting especially on people's faces.  It makes them look like statues.

[Canuck]

They all seem a hell of a lot more real in colour don't they?  They seem more 'human'.  Some of those German kids look-well- a lot like kids!

[GGMark]

awesome thing to share, thanks a lot.

[PeteRock]

I find things like this amazing, especially when I continue to learn something new.  For example, I had no idea that the breadth of WWII extended as far as Hoth.   

[CeeKay]

you know, if I was at home I'd photoshop an AT-AT or two into that pic.

[Redfive]

best I could do in 5 min

[mytocles]

My father was a navigator in the Air Force during WWII, and is now buried at one of the Massachusetts Veterans Memorial cemeteries (not killed during the war, he led a long and full life).  I remember him bringing home "Sad Sack" comic books and reading them to us when he was on leave.  About a year before his death, I located some original Sad Sack books to give him for his birthday, and have since inherited them back.  It's a treasure beyond compare. 

These photos really hit home for me - thanks for sharing them! 

[Rumpy]

Incredible. There are a few that do look colorized, like the one mentioned earlier in the thread, and the 2nd to last of the gun firing. The explosion on that one looks like it's been painted on and doesn't look realistic at all. And if you look to the right of the image, you can see blue splotches which are different from the rest of the background, like if someone had been trying to fix the background using the same paintbrush as the one used for the explosion.

[Daehawk]

Amphibious AT-ATs that walk on water? Amazing

[Redfive]

Amphibious AT-ATs that walk on water? Amazing

For five minutes of work, yes

[Jimmy the Fish]

I knew it. George Lucas couldn't come up with an original idea if it came up and smacked him on the forehead.

[Canuck]

LOL please make some more attempts at that pic.  I'd like to see one with AT-AT's and AT-ST's and a few...whatever you call em.  Flight vehicles that the Alliance used.

[ROTC1983]

LOL please make some more attempts at that pic.  I'd like to see one with AT-AT's and AT-ST's and a few...whatever you call em.  Flight vehicles that the Alliance used.

Snowspeeders   I think... 

[Arkon]

Some more, saw this link on reddit.com

http://community.livejournal.com/photo_polygon/991878.html

[ATB]

Some more, saw this link on reddit.com

http://community.livejournal.com/photo_polygon/991878.html

Another remarkable find, Arkon. Thanks.   Wow some of those photos are breathtaking- and a few of them of Hitler are positively intimate.  I'd think that I'd have come across at least a few of them in all the reading I used to do about WWII. Makes me wonder where these photos have been- somewhere in German archives?

Is that one photo of the attractive young lady next to Hitler- is that Eva Braun?

Also, I've always found Nazi pagentry remarkable- but to see it in color as the citizens would have, I can see why it was so easy to get a caught up in it. Just wow.

[Shinjin]

This one:

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/1073/022tk5.jpg

Is that his arm on the ground?

[Redfive]

This one:

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/1073/022tk5.jpg

Is that his arm on the ground?

Wow, looks like it.

[Booner]

Is that one photo of the attractive young lady next to Hitler- is that Eva Braun?

A quick search says that is Maria Reiter, a former fiancee.

[Daehawk]

Some amazing photos. Ya those stylish Nazis Red flags and black leather trench coats.

This is my favorite shot.

[mytocles]

This one:

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/1073/022tk5.jpg

Is that his arm on the ground?

Wow, looks like it.

That's exactly what I thought when I saw that one.  He looks more like he lost a leg, but the limb near him sure looks like an arm. Then I noticed that you can't actually see his left arm in the photo, or at least where it should be.

War photos are usually quite poignant - one shot shows folks "joking and smoking" or having tea, another depicts the gruesome reality.

[Daehawk]

He does look like he lost his left arm but the hand on the ground looks like a right hand.

[CeeKay]

This one:

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/1073/022tk5.jpg

Is that his arm on the ground?

Wow, looks like it.

That's exactly what I thought when I saw that one.  He looks more like he lost a leg, but the limb near him sure looks like an arm. Then I noticed that you can't actually see his left arm in the photo, or at least where it should be.

War photos are usually quite poignant - one shot shows folks "joking and smoking" or having tea, another depicts the gruesome reality.

I'm not sure it's his- it appears that the hand's thumb is facing towards the camera, which would make it a right arm, and that guy still has his.  id do agree, seeing pics like that mixed with the others can be quite disarming.  one of the ones from Arkons second link even has boobies!

[mytocles]

Yeah, it does look like a right arm, unless the grass is concealing more evidence - but it still looks like a right hand there.  I must've forgotten that most people have two of them and that they are different, duh.

Can anyone tell me what that thing is between his chin and his belt buckle?  Is it shrapnel sticking out of his chest, an innocent flap of the uniform, or an amputating device?  It's probably something very simple, but I've stared and stared at it and can't come up with an answer.   

[hepcat]

They were bigoted, small minded and astoundingly inhuman at times...but man, did those nazis know how to dress.

[Rumpy]

Also, I've always found Nazi pagentry remarkable- but to see it in color as the citizens would have, I can see why it was so easy to get a caught up in it. Just wow.

Yeah, no kidding. It's almost as if they were living like royalty despite the theatrics of war.

I saw a pretty interesting documentary about Hitler once. It was actually about his like of cars, and how he'd attend races before the war, how he commissioned the VW Bug, and how all of that translated to the machines of war when it came time to it. It was fascinating. An aspect of him you don't often get to hear about.

[Arkon]

Also, I've always found Nazi pagentry remarkable- but to see it in color as the citizens would have, I can see why it was so easy to get a caught up in it. Just wow.

Yeah, no kidding. It's almost as if they were living like royalty despite the theatrics of war.

I saw a pretty interesting documentary about Hitler once. It was actually about his like of cars, and how he'd attend races before the war, how he commissioned the VW Bug, and how all of that translated to the machines of war when it came time to it. It was fascinating. An aspect of him you don't often get to hear about.

The pagentry truly is incredible.  I really need to do more historical reading about WWII, or at least talk more often about it with my friend who was in the war. 

As a chaiplains assistant he saw alot of things that I hope to never see in picture tho.  He was often one of the first few people to arrive at the concentration camps after they were liberated so as to hold services for all the dead.  He was in Buchenwald the day it was liberated.