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

[raytoei@gmail.com]

i googled Hugo Jaeger, the film used was indeed Kodachrome.

i have read that in the 30's and 40's the contax cameras were seen as more professional and the leica was a new entrant... i wonder why was the leica featured more prominently than the contax ? Was it because it was the "official" camera of the Wehrmacht ?

raytoei

 

[Meakin]

IMHO - one of the reasons that we react to color photos depicting important historical events, is that we are simply used to seeing them in black and white - resulting in the color photos coming across much stronger.

If we had been exposed to color more, perhaps seeing the events depicted in b&w would have produced a similar reaction?

Amazing photo's without a doubt - scary at the same time.

Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,

/Meakin

 

[splitimageview]

Please, let's enjoy this set and not get political, as these types of threads always seem to do. 🙂

 

[StaaleS]

Very interesting series, it is not often that you see colour photography from that era. And I agree that it smells of Summar in a number of the photos, with that glow 🙂 The sickly green tint in some remind me of a 135 Hektor I used to have.

As a former plastic model builder, it was interesting to see photo 144, with the light tanks on lorries. Both tanks and trucks show a two-tone grey-and-green camouflage... we always thought they were a uniform dark grey (aka "Panzergrau"). The colour difference is very subtle, no wonder it did not show up in black and white photos.

 

[Out to Lunch]

When you Google 'hugo Jaeger' you'll find a lot more of his color photography. Interesting how 'color' humanizes the period...in the sense that you realize these were human beings and not animals who were responsible for the slaughter and the crimes. Also have a look here to read how Jaeger preserved his Nazi pictures after the war and what he did with them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Jaeger

 

[splitimageview]

Thanks for the link?

Kodachrome I suspect?

Cheers, Horea

I would say these are not Kodachrome but I have nothing concrete to base this on. I have scanned many Kodachrome slides from the 40s and early 50s. Some in this set almost look hand-colored, Kodachrome doesn't look like this.

Amazing collection!

 

[BobYIL]

i googled Hugo Jaeger, the film used was indeed Kodachrome.....raytoei

Oh, my! If they really are Kodachrome then the first version and 10 ASA only!! I used 25ASA Kodachrome in the '60s and it was painly...

 

[splitimageview]

What link(s) are you basing Kodachrome on? Would love to check them out...

Does anyone know who runs the site http://www.axisimagebunker.com/?

 

[kehng]

What link(s) are you basing Kodachrome on? Would love to check them out...

Does anyone know who runs the site http://www.axisimagebunker.com/?

He's an Englishman of part Jew descent so he's got no political inclination. Good guy. PM me if you want his email

 

[zuiko85]

Haempe; As I understand Porsche worked on a number of projects for the German government at the time, including tractors, tanks, and of course the 'peoples car' development. So....who knows what they talked about at this meeting, could have been a number of subjects.

 

[Vics]

Just amazing and I agree with all said here! This guy was one fine PRO photog! Amazing what one can do with a bag of Kodachrome and a 5cm lens. Gets me to thinking...

 

[porktaco]

wow. those are amazing.

 

[Tom A]

Stunning quality for 70+ year old color film. Wonder if this would have survived if it had been shot on digital. Hope someone is around in 2082 to show what our world looks like today!
Great historical "artifact" collection.

 

[bidnez]

Sad and scary - this one most of all:

 

[SimonSawSunlight]

Please, let's enjoy this set and not get political, as these types of threads always seem to do. 🙂

yes, quite often. but it's more understandable that they do if you live in and walk by quite a few of the places in these pictures every day.

 

[bidnez]

I do see your point; Simon. Berlin can be a tough reminder sometimes - still a great place to be.

 

[SimonSawSunlight]

still a great place to be.

today it is, absolutely.

 

[bidnez]

Exactly!
I used to go to Berlin a lot in the late seventies/early eighties as well. The contrasts; excellent, creative music scene, the pulsing cultural life on one side - then just a U-Bahn ride to remind you of the political realities of a divided Europe and totalitarianism.

 

[red snapper]

I find this Nazi propaganda stuff objectionable.

 

[semilog]

Please, let's enjoy this set and not get political, as these types of threads always seem to do. 🙂

Depends on what you mean by "political." The pictures are of one of the most evil men in human history and his enablers. Hitler and his lackeys welded industry, the arts, culture, and science into a perverted machine designed for conquest and fueled by hatred, torture, and mass murder. The pictures in question, made for propaganda purposes, were components of that machine.

It doesn't get more political than that.