Amazing photos of Nazi Germany by Hugo Jaeger using a Leica LTM??

[kehng]

I recently met a freelancer in our studio who is an avid wartime collector. We got talking when he saw me take my Leica II out of my jacket. He was curious about Leicas and it turns out he has a massive collection of wartime photos but no cameras (although I think I've now talked him into looking at a Leica IIIB with a Summar :angel🙂.

Anyway, this particular set of photos in his possession by Hugo Jaeger below is simply amazing! I've never quite seen anything like it. He tells me that he is fairly sure that they were all shot using Leicas and indeed many of them do look like they were either shot with a 5cm Summar or Elmar. Be curious to see what you guys think?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/56090579@N02/sets/72157626236184820/

 

[raytoei@gmail.com]

wow...image no.3 of the huge parade is incredible...thanks for sharing!

ps. yeah...it looks a lot like the summar-glow is evident in the photos...

pps. i believe this is color slides... incredible considering the exposure was spot on...

 

[horosu]

Thanks for the link?

Kodachrome I suspect?

Cheers, Horea

 

[kehng]

Yeah I thought the Summar glow was there too. He also seemed to mention Agfa films as the film of choice during the war... Or maybe they didn't have a choice?

 

[raytoei@gmail.com]

The glow is missing in the later photos.... maybe a summitar ?


most fascinating...i was tracing the pictures through the annexation of
Sudetenland, the Invasion of Poland and I think image 132 is Dunkirk.
Image 146 is the French Somua S35 tank..

More please!

 

[BobYIL]

I am speechless... What a great collection! I have been impressed by them more than some movies about the same era.

(Summitar was first introduced in 1939.. probably Summar as too much wooly glow..)

 

[karlori]

I have some glass projection slides used for HJ education purposes I've acquired in a trade. Have no Idea how to scan them, seem to me that they are too thick even for lighttable viewing.

The set is unbelievable, I myself am a WWII collector seeing some of the things i have in their period state is really cool.

 

[morback]

Very interesting and strangely fascinating. A lot of pictures that you don't usually see associated with that period, and some humanity where it is mostly never shown.

Love the Ju-52 with the ducks. Would love to see some captions with location, time and some of the people (I'd love to know who's meeting the German brass under those kepis...)

 

[magicianhisoka]

Amazing historical photos. Beats anything I've seen this week 🙂

 

[NeeZee]

wow, what a set!
being german (though born in 1979) it gives me chills everytime i see photos like that.
photos 002-004 are obviously from the Reichsparteitag in Nuremberg.
can't see a lot of humanity in the photos though. especially the ones with hitler have probably mostly been taken for propagandic purposes. that was Jaeger's job after all...

 

[skipjack]

Photo number photo appears to be Ferdinand Porsche.

 

[jarski]

thanks for sharing!

dunno why, but strange to view material like this on Flickr, and its even in color.

 

[skipjack]

who was Hugo Jaeger and how did he have access to all of these events and people?

 

[Snacks]

Very strange and somewhat humanising to have them depicted in colour. It makes it more sad, the realisation that seemingly normal people had such power and did such terrible things. That's the power of photography, I suppose.

 

[xayraa33]

Some of those interior shots most probably were taken with a fast Xenon lens or even the Sonnar f1.5 lens on that slow Agfacolor film.

Here is that film for cine use:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mefyWTfLWHM&feature=related&skipcontrinter=1

 

[jarski]

who was Hugo Jaeger and how did he have access to all of these events and people?

Wikipedia:

Hugo Jaeger is the former personal photographer of Adolf Hitler. He travelled with Hitler in the years leading up to and throughout World War II and took around 2,000 colour photographs of the Austrian-born German politician. Jaeger was one of the few photographers who were using color photography techniques at the time.

 

[johannielscom]

Yeah, it's almost North Korean in atmosphere.

In other words, if you can manage to put people into the 'right' mental mode, you can get them to agree to a lot of things.

EDIT: watched that video posted above as well. While I like the image quality and the vintage feel, I am shocked at the omnipresence of the red-white-and-black and nazi symbols. To see that the regime was that totalitarian even before the war broke out... it's repulsive.

 

[zuiko85]

Picture 040 includes Ferdinand Porsche. No doubt discussing plans for the 'KDF' car, later to be the Volkswagen.

 

[helen.HH]

The Color Photos to my EYE
seem more Haunting & Mesmerizing

I think that set
had a far More Intense Emotional Impact on Me
than photos of that era I have seen in B&W

 

[haempe]

Picture 040 includes Ferdinand Porsche. No doubt discussing plans for the 'KDF' car, later to be the Volkswagen.

Certainly not. The model is a wheeled tractor with wood gas engine. 😉