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Operation Overlord

zarq — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:21:02 -0800

PhotosNormandie is a collaborative collection of more than 3,000 royalty-free photos from World War II's Battle of Normandy and its aftermath. (Photos date from June 6 to late August 1944). The main link goes to the photostream. You can also peruse sets, which include 2700+ images from the US and Canadian National Archives.

Awesome times in East Germany

Eekacat — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:34:36 -0800

Secret Spy Photos from East Germany Revealed! All kinds of awesome from the time that the Berlin Wall fell. [coral cache]

A G.I.'s WWII Memoir

zarq — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:16:33 -0800

Robert F. Gallagher served in the United States Army's 815th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion (Third Army) in the European Theater during WWII. He has posted his memoir online: "Scratch One Messerschmitt," told from numerous photos he took during the war and the detailed notes he made shortly afterwards. From "Side Effects of the Story" "In the year 2007, I was approached by DWNY Productions, Inc. who was working on a movie called "Revolutionary Road" starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, two of the leading movie stars of the day. The studio was interested in using pictures from my story taken in Paris during my trip to Nice, France in 1945 - see Chapter 27, Rest and Relaxation. We arranged a financial agreement and although I sold them ten pictures they used only one. In it, they transposed my face with that of Leonardo DiCaprio."

Berlin is colorful

malapropist — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:13:47 -0800

Matthias Heiderich takes colorful pictures of Berlin, among other things. I think this one is my favorite. [via] The photos on Heiderich's Flickr were all shot since 2006, yet they feature a deliciously retro quality and a color palette that is hard to imagine existing in reality. There's some overlap here, but if you just want a quick peek without sifting through his Flickr, check out one of these blog posts: Color Berlin at Grain Edit Color Berlin at Sooner Than Now Color Berlin at Core.Form-Ula Color Berlin at Escape Into Life

Bundesarchiv

jim in austin — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:17:29 -0800

Starting on Thursday Dec 4, 2008, Wikimedia Commons will witness a massive upload of new images. We are anticipating about 100,000 files from a donation from the German Federal Archive. These images are mostly related to the history of Germany (including the German Democratic Republic) and are part of a cooperation between Wikimedia Germany and the Federal Archive...

Deutschland 1929

jonson — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 13:25:53 -0800

Beautiful Gallery (Google Cache) of b & w photos of Germany from 1929. The shots look like something out of a fairy tale, or a Jean Cocteau film. Here are some favorites. Compare to this (all to brief) flickr gallery of photos from about 15 years later, during WWII.