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It's always a bit shocking to me to see photos of WW II in color. Because of newsreels and old photos, it's almost like the world then was supposed to be in black and white.
Anyway, some of these photos are very interesting.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/newly-discovered-color-photos-inside-hitler-private-home-163857939.html
arcane1
(38,613 posts)as if they were from a 1955 movie about Hitler.
obamanut2012
(26,064 posts)It was very strange, because they did look fake. It was so odd to see the color in the ghetto. Clothes, paint, signs.
randr
(12,409 posts)Looks to be having a good old time.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)hlthe2b
(102,205 posts)Hitler's Bavarian headquarters--Eagles Nest. It looked very much like that photo in their depiction. I suppose it may have even been shot on location...
obamanut2012
(26,064 posts)XemaSab
(60,212 posts)hlthe2b
(102,205 posts)Hitler's "Eagle's Nest" was designed and built for Adolf Hilter's 50th Birthday by his personal secretary and Head of the Nazi Party Chancellery Martin Bormann. The monument is called "Kehlsteinhaus" in German because of it was originally intended to be a "Teahouse" for the head of the Third Reich. This mountain-top hideaway played a prominent role as the main unit objective in HBO's critically acclaimed mini-series "Band of Brothers."
Eagle's Nest
The allied bombing and battles of World War II left the building intact and today the Eagle's Nest remains in its original state. In the years after the war, the Eagle's Nest and the surrounding area of Berchtesgaden remained a part of US Armed Forces property in southeastern Germany. The US military set up a recreation center where servicemembers could hike in the summer and ski in the winter. The US military returned the area to Germany in the 1990s.
At that time, the German government demolished the American General Walker Hotel at Obersalzberg, to make way for the existing bus depot that serves the Eagle's Nest.
http://www.letsgo-europe.com/Germany/eagles_nest/
Cleita
(75,480 posts)photos and home movies she made in color. I do remember that color film was very expensive in the thirties and forties.
obamanut2012
(26,064 posts)JSnuffy
(374 posts)... looks really close to the apartment in Doctor Who where they punch Hitler.
It's cool to know that was their source.
obamanut2012
(26,064 posts)JSnuffy
(374 posts)nice...
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)obamanut2012
(26,064 posts)JSnuffy
(374 posts)but maybe Ill check out that episode tomorrow...
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)YellowRubberDuckie
(19,736 posts)...try to watch Nazi Scrapbooks from Hell. Oh my god. It's a scrapbook by one of the guys who ran one of the death camps. It's chilling. Apparently most of the pictures they have from the concentration camps comes from this scrapbook. Amazingly well done documentary.
obamanut2012
(26,064 posts)I wonder if it's on their website. Thanks!
tammywammy
(26,582 posts)It's a photo album that they thought was lost. It was discovered and even had a photo of the doctor on the train arrival platform to separate out the new arrivals to the camp.
Edited to add: I think the most disconcerting part of the show was that there were pictures of the Nazis on vacation. They looked like such normal people doing normal things, but then they took photos of them doing awful things like separating people to be slaves or gas chambers. There were some other pictures that came out recently that Eva Braun had taken. http://www.life.com/gallery/57511/image/109852765/rare-eva-brauns-private-photos#index/0
YellowRubberDuckie
(19,736 posts)...these were just people who did these atrocious things. It would have been easier if they were monsters, but they were human beings.
Pholus
(4,062 posts)I knew other VW cars were used by the Nazi's but finding that picture of Hitler in a Bug in 1938 is just amazing!
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,580 posts)It was to be the car for the common people.
Pholus
(4,062 posts)No wonder Herbie didn't talk in those movies -- he'd have had an accent...
obamanut2012
(26,064 posts)That was declassified last year, I think.
tammywammy
(26,582 posts)Ferdinand Porsche designed the first Volkswagen Beetle.
obamanut2012
(26,064 posts)dimbear
(6,271 posts)for designing the beetle. Karma.
oneshooter
(8,614 posts)UTUSN
(70,674 posts)sweet married couple being profiled in an international magazine as being this lovely couple.
WhoEVER is in power IS SO charming and lovely and SO love-er-ly!1 Shrub and Pickles, anyone?!1
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)we think they will look like monsters, but look so...normal. Normalizing the unthinkable.