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German Photo's WWI in colour

Even though the photos were staged I appreciate seeing the other side of the coin. Destruction/ruins in colour somehow hits home a bit more don't you think?

Thanks for the linky.
 
Hard to believe this. Fantastic!! Their trenches seem to be much better than the ones that are always portrayed as ours...with mud everywhere up to the knees. I wonder what our soldiers thought when they saw these well engineered accomodations. First class find Barrie.

Come to think of it, where are the helmets. I suppose a lull in fighting was required to secure these pictures and helmets would not be worn then but you would have thought that some would be around. The photo's all look very clinical to me...posed for propaganda purposes maybe. Most of the soldiers look like they are wearing parade tunics. There is a sense of unreality about them somehow, I wonder if anyone else finds this.
 
Great photos Barrie - but I too found them a bit staged managed compared to photos and stories as to what it was like in out trenches - propaganda for home consumption.
Thanks, Sheri.
 
Black & White photos show the awful condition in the WW1 trenches much more graphically than the obviously staged for the German people at home coloured photos. Len.
 
Even if they are elaborately groomed and posed, those pictures are a wonderful technical achievement for the time, and still a powerful record of the devastation caused by those terrible battles. Thanks for putting them on.
Peter
 
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