The Second World War In Colour Part 1 (1/4)

The Second World War In Colour Part 1/2
All war is tragic and brutal, none more so than the Second World War. For those born after 1945, the war has appeared only in black and white in countless books, films, and grainy newsreels, even though much of it was shot in colour by both military units and amateur filmmakers. Colour photography was expensive to develop, and the media were reluctant to show all the horrors of battle in - what at the time was thought to be unbearable - colour to the "home front."

The Second World War in Colour contains more than two hundred compelling colour images, from the gruelling conditions of the front lines, to aerial dogfights and blazing cities, to the utter devastation of Hiroshima following the dropping of the atomic bomb. Ten years of exhaustive research has enabled these largely unseen stills to be compiled for the first time into a remarkable record, removing the veil of time and chiaroscuro to forever change our view of the Second World War.

In addition to the drama of the colour images, there are harrowing testaments and recollections by hundreds of individuals of different nationalities who bring colour to the record in a different way with their very personal experiences of what it was like to fight, mourn, suffer, and finally celebrate during those long six years when the world was at total war.

Two generations have grown up since the Second World War to think of that war as a conflict fought in black and white. These colour images bring home the horrors and stresses of that war for the first time with a vivid new clarity. This is war seen face-to-face, not through a glass darkly.

Playlist for whole episode: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F36113D1168DA85C
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prH7D7dAqhY
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS4-pIRD8Kc
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eCBlMAn2Rs
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seBTWU8ywsk

The Second World War In Colour Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=3CA6971BB3F9F98E

See my account for more documentaries about the Second World War.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Second
• World
• War
• Colour
• Germany
• Nazi
• Panzer
• Great
• Britain
• America
• France
• Russia
• Blitzkrieg
• Documentary

[aboahmadaliraqi]

WOW! Thanks for sharing This Master piece :)

[DACHRONIKDISTRIBUTER]

snapper fish

[TheClaycreatures]

1:42 A NEW WORLD ORDER ,,, is it just me or something is really wrong ???

[NeutralExistence]

@fandycanetas

More so then they would ever want us to believe.

Allied corporations like Ford, and Standard Oil were fundamental in the creation of the Nazi government, and its prolonged occupation of France. Not to mention the financial barons through the bank of international settlements directly funded the rise of the Nazi party. These same banks which now own over 13 trillion of U.S. debt.

[June28July]

@spermwaste

LOL

[alettaoceanable]

naziiiii

[fandycanetas]

How many people were renponsible of that war? not only germany,many of the countrys were involved in that infamy,i am sure,many interest were there

[elvee88]

@spermwaste kugeln hatte ihn getroffen? Im sorry for the grammar thats probably horribly wrong, im not german, but i think i know that song.

[spermwaste]

ich hatt' einen kameraden