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Found this on a WWII website I visit, http://life.time.com/history/d-day-rare-color-photos/#1 The quality are that good you'd think they were re-enactors.

Other cool stuff can be found here: http://hitlernews.cloudworth.com/latest-world-war-II-news.php

Pretty sure it's not Right Wing, looking at his statement on the front page http://hitlernews.cloudworth.com

Those pictures are great.

What I don't get is why don't just colorize all the old images. I mean as a way to reach to a younger generation. Because the pictures/video I feel look much more recent to me when they are in color.

IIRC isn't there is a show on the Military Chanel with just colorized WW2 videos.

Edit: Technically the caption of image 7 is wrong. That is a French machine gun probably into service by the Germans (or possibly the resistance) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotchkiss_M1914_machine_gun . Also I watch a National Geographic, and historians that now think that 4,000+ men became casualties on Omaha Beach. Instead of original estimate of approximately 2,000

If you colourise the picture it's not a true image. How would you know what colours the shops or foliage was? As for colouring uniforms, true images can often defy expectations, things change colour in certain conditions. Vehicles in the desert bleach which is why my grandfather described Sherman tanks being grey at the time. But if you were to model them that bleached-grey, it would draw the eye and people would instinctively feel it was wrong.

Artificially colourising photos then encourages you to colour according to expectations. Personally I've never had an issue with black and white images or film, I think that there are good reasons to leave it that way, authenticity for a start. By tampering with it, you create things that are misleading.

Looking through these I realised it's kind of appropriate that all photos of the world wars are in black and white, it kind of sub-consciously reminds us they were a terrible time.

I really like the detailed color pictures. The pictures from North Africa almost look recent.

Wolfstan wrote:Found this on a WWII website I visit, http://life.time.com/history/d-day-rare-color-photos/#1 The quality are that good you'd think they were re-enactors.

Good one meow.

anyone doing an IG army (to be specific. Cadian) using joes on the link as a paintscheme? meow