Naaazis in color...

No... not Illinois Naaazis!

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Amazingly creepy pictures. should be required viewing though - it's too easy to put this stuff in the back of our collective conscience.

Thanks for the link.

I only had time to run through the first page of photos, but this proves to be an extremely interesting and thought provoking set of images from that period.

Very good photography also from a good PJ, whoever he was.

Terrific series. The photographer obviously had unlimited access to the **** Hierarcy. These look like they were taken early on in Hitler's regime. I don't know that a Life photographer would have been around him in the later stages of the war..

The photographer here is most likely to be Hugo Jaeger, Hitler's personal photographer.

Pete wrote in post #7335752
The photographer here is most likely to be Hugo Jaeger, Hitler's personal photographer.

I wonder how life got to copywrite them?

Mike McCusker wrote in post #7335777
I wonder how life got to copywrite them?

Probably was sub-licensed from Das Spegiel, where they were first published.

Just a guess though.

Pete wrote in post #7335752
The photographer here is most likely to be Hugo Jaeger, Hitler's personal photographer.

And using a 6x6 Hasselblad with Zeiss lens no doubt.
-Bruce

Ballen Photo wrote in post #7336288
And using a 6x6 Hasselblad with Zeiss lens no doubt.
-Bruce

No idea. There's no EXIF...

Looks like the marching group was spelling out the "M" for "Marxism"...

Nice find...Definitely an intersting POV.

You know I never get over that fact that the ****'s loved that swastika, man they put it on everything. I guess they had a fear of losing brand identity.

edit: I didn't realize that word was filtered, but it makes sense. ****= members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.

ShootinOkie wrote in post #7338510
edit: I didn't realize that word was filtered, but it makes sense.

There are some very strict laws in some European nations regarding the use of that word in any way that could be interpreted as promoting the ideology behind it, or profiting or benefiting in some way from its use. This being an international forum, is particularly aware of its use.

POTN is far from alone -- even Google by default excludes the term from searches and results.

On the photos, the crowd scenes were particularly impressive to me. The sense of scale and order was interesting to behold.

ShootinOkie wrote in post #7338510
You know I never get over that fact that the ****'s loved that swastika, man they put it on everything. I guess they had a fear of losing brand identity.

Thankfully their VW's seem to have come through without them.
Anybody else notice those classic old Vee Dubs?
-Bruce

Ballen Photo wrote in post #7340021
Thankfully their VW's seem to have come through without them.
Anybody else notice those classic old Vee Dubs?
-Bruce

I did. They were so similar in appearance to that for so long that at first glance they seemed completely out of place -- an anachronism that wasn't.