LOST PICTURES [ GERMANY 1939-1940 ]

[[JiF]Brick]

Received an email with a PowerPoint slide show of these amazing photos with the description below.
Found a link to them here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/34134070/Rare ... ReichRevue

These pictures were taken by a Life photographer between 1939 and 1940 in Berlin and were lost for over 50 years because the American photographer disappeared at the beginning of the war, along with his Roliflex camera.

Shown here are the originals (Used at that time in the production of magazines). The majority are 6" X 9". They were found by a nurse in a Berlin hospital, who kept them put away during all these years

[[JiF]Sgt Shellshocked]

Thanks for sharing these with us Brick , they are amazing

[[JiF]Riceman]

These are realllly interesting Brick, thanks!

[[JiF]Alfred Neumann]

The pictures are great.

thx for it brick.



Alfred

[[JiF]corn]

Colour (color) Pictures wow!
Thx for posting them!

[[JiF]Top321us]

Amazing pics. Thanks for sharing Brick.

[[JiF]major confusion]

Wow! Great pics. Ol' Schicklgruber almost looks human.

[[JiF]zougathefist]

Nice one Brick, these are amazing

Seeing the way things were in colour makes it much more real somehow and therefore scarier!

Colour (Unintelligible) Pictures

Well said that man!

[[JiF]Kyle]

Great find, Brick! Can't believe they've been "lost" for so long. This effect of seeing things from WW2 in colour is indeed strange. I noticed that when we were visiting a former concentration camp (so-called KZ) near the French border with our school class a couple of years ago. It was all there what you would expect to see and what you already knew from old pictures: The huge barbed wire fences, the guard towers, the crematorium... but kinda different. It was all real, coloured and right in front of you. Pretty confusing in some way. And despite all the forest, green meadows and flowers all around, this still was the place were countless people had suffered and died a few decades ago. At some point I saw a couple of guys fooling around and posing for photos at some old gallows. Really had to hold myself back not to punch them in the face. Our generation may not be responsible for what happened back then but there are things that had better be remembered - and victims that should be shown some respect. Bunch of idiots...

I also like the idea of going to a related museum or memorial place during the national service, just as we did it at Obersalzberg (see my "storytime" thread). Some of the other visitors somehow didn't get the point, however. So I heard one of them beef about how we (quote) "fit right in with all that Wehrmacht crap". No comment.

Kyle