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Re: WWII colour pictures
« Reply #1 on: 23 June 2013, 22:19:40 »

grandad told me-in france they fought the germans like mad-and had to go around the towns so americans could go in and liberate them-he also said----when us (canadian) and british fired the germans ducked-when the germans fired we ducked and when americans fired Everybody ducked :o
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Re: WWII colour pictures
« Reply #2 on: 23 June 2013, 22:20:47 »

They were interesting pictures, nice posting...... :y :y

I noticed that the Germans soldiers all looked very young compared to the American ones...........
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Re: WWII colour pictures
« Reply #3 on: 23 June 2013, 22:21:39 »

grandad told me-in france they fought the germans like mad-and had to go around the towns so americans could go in and liberate them-he also said----when us (canadian) and british fired the germans ducked-when the germans fired we ducked and when americans fired Everybody ducked :o

No change there then........ ::) ::) ::)
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« Reply #4 on: 23 June 2013, 22:24:02 »

Recently published WWII pictures that have not been released before.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2346829/After-liberation-UNPUBLISHED-color-photos-American-troops-posing-happily-liberated-Europeans-Allied-Forces-defeated-Nazis-World-War-II.html

Isn't it odd how colour photos make the war seem much more 'real'? Thanks for posting, Rods.  :y
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« Reply #5 on: 23 June 2013, 22:32:06 »

They were interesting pictures, nice posting...... :y :y

I noticed that the Germans soldiers all looked very young compared to the American ones...........
probably hitler youth--young and highly trained fighters --colour really does make it more real glad first world war was not in colour-horrific
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« Reply #6 on: 23 June 2013, 23:44:45 »

They were interesting pictures, nice posting...... :y :y

I noticed that the Germans soldiers all looked very young compared to the American ones...........
probably hitler youth--young and highly trained fighters --colour really does make it more real glad first world war was not in colour-horrific

luftwaffe personnel that nco looks terrified
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Re: WWII colour pictures
« Reply #7 on: 24 June 2013, 01:55:51 »

Thanks for posting, really bring the war to life.
My kids were amazed they think the 70s were in black & white!
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« Reply #8 on: 24 June 2013, 07:33:07 »

Please please, don't get to excited. Many on here will point out that it is the Daily Mail so these pictures where obviously created with photoshop or faked in some way.  ;D

On a serious note, very good post.  :y
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« Reply #9 on: 24 June 2013, 07:56:47 »

By that time in the war the jerrys were using hitler youth and older conscripts and rested eastern front units in france,beligum etc,because hitler was oppsessed with the war in the eastern front,the ss division's that were there were on rest from russia.
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« Reply #10 on: 24 June 2013, 11:01:08 »

interesting pictures :y
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« Reply #11 on: 25 June 2013, 17:42:59 »

They were interesting pictures, nice posting...... :y :y

I noticed that the Germans soldiers all looked very young compared to the American ones...........
probably hitler youth--young and highly trained fighters --colour really does make it more real glad first world war was not in colour-horrific

Yes indeed, as by then the Eastern front had drained the German forces of the mature, highly experienced and trained Wehrmacht soldiers, with hundreds of thousands killed or captured by the Russians. The loss of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad was a major event, as they were the elite who had stormed across Poland, Czechoslovakia, and on into Western Europe during the "good times" of 1939,1940 and 1941. From 1942 they were losing the war.

It is such a pity that the German commanders in France did not enter into separate peace negotiations with the Allies, as indeed one very senior German Field Marshal, Erwin Rommel, was tempted to do as they knew they were losing the war and Hitler was a mad man taking the Fatherland down into ruin.  However, the opportunity was lost as the fear of Hitler and the SS was too great, with a military structure centred on the dictator.

Those colour images are so vivid and certainly could have been taken yesterday.  A great post Rods2! :y :y :y 
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« Reply #13 on: 26 June 2013, 00:31:11 »

They were interesting pictures, nice posting...... :y :y

I noticed that the Germans soldiers all looked very young compared to the American ones...........
probably hitler youth--young and highly trained fighters --colour really does make it more real glad first world war was not in colour-horrific

Yes indeed, as by then the Eastern front had drained the German forces of the mature, highly experienced and trained Wehrmacht soldiers, with hundreds of thousands killed or captured by the Russians. The loss of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad was a major event, as they were the elite who had stormed across Poland, Czechoslovakia, and on into Western Europe during the "good times" of 1939,1940 and 1941. From 1942 they were losing the war.

It is such a pity that the German commanders in France did not enter into separate peace negotiations with the Allies, as indeed one very senior German Field Marshal, Erwin Rommel, was tempted to do as they knew they were losing the war and Hitler was a mad man taking the Fatherland down into ruin.  However, the opportunity was lost as the fear of Hitler and the SS was too great, with a military structure centred on the dictator.

Those colour images are so vivid and certainly could have been taken yesterday.  A great post Rods2! :y :y :y

About 4 million German troops were killed on the Eastern Front, but at a price of over 10 million Soviet dead. Churchill, remembering WWI carnage was deliberately in no hurry for the D-day landings, until the back of the German army had been broken in the east, so we would have a relatively easy time landing and liberating.
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Re: WWII colour pictures
« Reply #14 on: 26 June 2013, 00:34:51 »

Recently published WWII pictures that have not been released before.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2346829/After-liberation-UNPUBLISHED-color-photos-American-troops-posing-happily-liberated-Europeans-Allied-Forces-defeated-Nazis-World-War-II.html

Isn't it odd how colour photos make the war seem much more 'real'? Thanks for posting, Rods.  :y

Was just thinking the same...  :y
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