Black and white photos don't do history justice-they seem dead and not a part of the real world- like a story from a textbook. Then you see the images in color, like the General in a cafe reading the paper...-it really hits home, it really happened and not so long ago...
http://www.ww2incolor.com
Ping for later read........
My thoughts exactly. The pic of the General looks totally real and contemporary.
It's funny -- the only period of history that I imagine in black and white is the late 19th and early 20th century. There are so many b&w photos from that era that it's just ingrained that that's the way it looked. But when I think of the Romans the medieval times or even the early part of US history, like the Revolutionary War, I picture it in color.
Seeing the WWI and WWII stuff in color makes you realize that they lived in a color world too. You know intellectually that that was the case, but it's still almost eerie to see the color pics.