Newly discovered color photos from inside Hitler’s private home

[obamanut2012]

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]

1. I know what you mean... the colosr makes them almost look fake

as if they were from a 1955 movie about Hitler.

[obamanut2012]

11. I saw some color from teh Warsaw Ghetto about a few months ago

It was very strange, because they did look fake. It was so odd to see the color in the ghetto. Clothes, paint, signs.

[randr]

2. Isn't that a Holy Roman Catholic Cardinal in one of the pics?

Looks to be having a good old time.

[lonestarnot]

16. That's what it looks like to me.

[hlthe2b]

3. Yes.. I wish the thousands of others could be located. Band of Bros. did nice job portraying

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]

12. I think it was

[XemaSab]

26. I thought that place got bombed

[hlthe2b]

28. Nope... see below

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]

4. Evidently Eva Braun was a photographer and I have seen

photos and home movies she made in color. I do remember that color film was very expensive in the thirties and forties.

[obamanut2012]

23. I think Downfall showed that

[JSnuffy]

5. The first photo....

... looks really close to the apartment in Doctor Who where they punch Hitler.

It's cool to know that was their source.

[obamanut2012]

13. I THOUGHT THAT TOO!

[JSnuffy]

17. Nerd power...

nice...

[laundry_queen]

18. Ha! me too! nt

[obamanut2012]

20. hahaha nice!

[JSnuffy]

30. Currently rewatching season 1....

but maybe Ill check out that episode tomorrow...

[laundry_queen]

22. Ooops, wrong spot, meant to reply to obamanut. nt

[YellowRubberDuckie]

6. If you can catch it on National Geographic Channel...

...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]

21. I read about the scrapbook

I wonder if it's on their website. Thanks!

[tammywammy]

25. I've seen that show, I think

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]

33. The most disturbing thing is...

...these were just people who did these atrocious things. It would have been easier if they were monsters, but they were human beings.

[Pholus]

7. I was shocked to learn that Herbie was a Nazi too!

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]

8. I believe that the Volkswagen was Hitler's idea.

It was to be the car for the common people.

[Pholus]

9. It apparently was, but I kind of thought it would have a different appearance. It hasn't changed!

No wonder Herbie didn't talk in those movies -- he'd have had an accent...

[obamanut2012]

14. Herbie was part of Operation paperclip

That was declassified last year, I think.

[tammywammy]

10. The People's Car

Ferdinand Porsche designed the first Volkswagen Beetle.

[obamanut2012]

15. That's right!

[dimbear]

19. Porsche was briefly imprisoned for war crimes, but not

for designing the beetle. Karma.

[oneshooter]

27. He also designed a better turret for the Tiger tank.

[UTUSN]

24. Neh, it ain't the disgusting beauty of a-hole-ness, it's like recently the Syrian

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]

29. the banality of evil

we think they will look like monsters, but look so...normal. Normalizing the unthinkable.

[obamanut2012]

31. Exactly

[leeroysphitz]

32. What a lovely time they are all having. n/t