Various 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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Erwin Rommel

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Montgomery
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A German Army cameraman filming the scenery at Dunkirk just after the Allied retreat.

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A known British cigarette company distributed in its boxes useful information to civilians.
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A known British cigarette company distributed in its boxes useful information to civilians.

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A known British cigarette company distributed in its boxes useful information to civilians.
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This was worn by Gestapo agents (notice the number in the back one) to identify them as Secret State Police agents.

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A panflet distributed to English citizens before the Battle of Britain.
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A pamphlet distributed to English citizens during the Battle of Britain. (Thanks Mrs.Hutton)

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Amazing is not enough to describe the existence of these pictures. (SS guards stand while thousands of people salute Hitler). Notice the number of cameras shooting in that moment.
 

One of the massive concentrations made by the Nazis (Nuremberg?). I actually know this is part of a sequence and I am about to put a second picture taken maybe within a few minutes from this one. Isn't it amazing in color?

'My honour is my loyalty'. Suggested by Hitler, based on teutonic legends. An SS knife.

Adolf Hitler. And behind him is the Reichspressechef Dr. Otto Dietrich, this information was very kindly given to me by the NISSID, a database on SS officers, please have a look at it, you will be amazed: http://nissid.docspages.com

Hermann Göering. Air Minister.

Hitler consecrating an SS flag. Nuremberg, 1938.

German factory making naval guns for a battleship.

Adolf Hitler planning an offensive (I must be right on this) with his High Command.

Himmler's ID from the Reichs-Kriegsflagge paramilitary group. 1920s.

A Nazi celebration, in remembrance of the Putsch of November 1923, at night in Munich, in the socalled 'Feldherrnhalle'. (Thanks Mr. Wiedemann)

Hitler making a speech to the Reichstag.

An SS ring with Himmler's signature inside.

The Soviet flag rises over the German Reichstag in the hands of a Russian elite soldier. In the background Berlin burning. May, 1945. (I believe this is not a color picture, but a colored one.)

An SS sword made in limited production.