[virgil283]

interesting film taken by nazi cameramen.

[a fool in paradise]

Nazi videocamera PING!

[RaceBannon]

bump

[SamAdams76]

The Germans were doomed. They had the Russians approaching from the West and the British and Americans approaching from the East and South. If they retreated north, they would have gotten even colder and they would have been eventually chased all the way to the Arctic circle.

I do not understand why the Germans continued to fight post-1943 when all was lost and it was only a matter of time.

[skeeter]

Colorization has come a long way.

[Popman]

bump....very interesting...

[The Toll]

I truly believe that most Americans, even educated ones, still to this day do not comprehend the ferocity of what happened on the Eastern front. These guys were doing Metal of Honor worthy actions DAILY! I mean that as respect to the men on both sides. There are books that explainn this in great detail. It’s truly shocking.

[Puzzleman]

It’s terrible the harm that one truly bad man can inflict on the world. Pray for America.

[Reeses]

revisionist tendencies

I'll say. Video cameras were giant, heavy, and grainy back then.

[onedoug]

Interesting to see video taken by the enemy.

When I was back in Vietnam a few years ago, I was fascinated by war footage taken by VC and NVA cameramen that aired on TV. Glimpses of the way they saw it. Interesting indeed.

[libstripper]

I like your point that it’s “film.” From all I’ve seen, both sides shot photographic film and there’s no indication that either used any video tape, practical video tape being an invention that was to come in the 1950s. Indeed, all of the color pictures of Kennedy and his assassination that I’ve seen are film, not video tape. Really good color video that can compete with film is only a fairly recent invention.

Turning to colorization, some of these films look like they were colorized. However, pre WWII Germany had the world’s finest photographic industry, an industry that developed and produced a great deal of practical color film before any other country’s. If you’re as fascinated by pre WWII pictures of Germany and Hitler as i am, you will come across many good movies and stills in color. Thus, I suspect that many of the really good looking clips from these two films were genuine color and not colorized.

[Hardraade]

Well, the poster may call it video but it is pretty obvious film footage. Some of it even looks handcranked. And some looks like old Sven Hassel footage.

Transfered to video.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

At about 2:37 on the first reel it looks like that Kraut is shooting a Tommy Gun, probably a captured model.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-788-0009-08A,_Tunesien,_Fallschirmj%C3%A4ger_bei_Untersuchung_von_MP.jpg

[Thud]

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