Ground Color Pictures

In 1935, the firm Kodak developed the color film Kodachrome which was one of the first comercial color films available, together with Agfacolor, in 1936, with which one could get transparencies or color slides. The color film Kodacolor was introduced in 1941 and it contributed to its popularization, though the Second World War had started in 1939. Many photographic improvements became available during this war period and it was used mostly in the military field. Some of the shots that survived after sixty years are the ones that you can see here, though there are still many, many more in private hands, which, I think, is not right because they are part of Humankind's Historic Patrimony and are above any selfish way to appropiate them.

It is not my intention to violate any copyright law, so if any of these pictures were violating it, please tell me.

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A Sdkfz troop transport here being used by the Afrika Korps.

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German infantry in front of a Panzer III in mid-December 1941. (The flag's use was to be recognized by friendly airplanes)
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Russian prisoners at the beginning of the war.

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German tanks in Russia, early August 1941.

Bulgarian troops.

German troops taking a Russian City in July 1941. (Very Interesting)

The SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer in their advance to Russia

Motorists resting on the way to Moscow.

An MG34 of the Waffen SS Polizei Division in France (May 1940).

37 mm. Pak 35/36 Antitank Gun in Warsaw, September 1939 (very nice picture, you can see the caliber in the side of the nearest ammo box).

Reviewing a Panzer IV in the Eastern Front. (Very Interesting).

Panzer Unit on the way to Moscow, presumably Winter of 1941. (This is actually a part of a sequence I hope I'll get)

Panzers of 23rd Panzergrenadiere SS Division, Nederland, in East Germany (1945). They seem to be Panzer IVF1, the short barreled 75mm version for infantry support.(Thanks Mr. Bosscher)

An assault gun (Sturmgeschutz IV?) in Italy (late in the war)

Aerial view of the Whermacht advancing, early in the war.

German soldiers in a Norwegian city. (1940)

Soldiers marching to the East.

Waffen-SS troops against the Red Army late in the war.