Photo report of the German occupier

During the Second World War, the Germans have made hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of color photographs on film agfakolor. Now these frames (their surviving part) gradually digitized and periodically pop up on the web.

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As a rule, the German color film of very poor quality and safety (although pictures of Hugo Jaeger, for example, can not be said). However, any color images of war continue to cause concern, as if they bring us closer to the time it makes palpable the tragic reality.
Yesterday found on some Internet flea markets several previously unknown to me some shots of Robert Botnera (Bothner Robert).
With all the crappy quality look interesting.

Occupied Smolensk, Assumption Cathedral in the distance is white:





These pictures feeling of utter ruin, although at the beginning of the German occupation of the city was still intact by 90 percent, as a minimum:



Here we have less disruption:



My attempts to make color correction to anything in particular failed, but sorry, very interesting kind of Smolensk:



Was signed as Smolensk, but the commentary pointed out that this "Kamenetz of the Brest region. The photo White Tower, Church of St. Simeon and building gymnasium bit »:



And it appears as Smolensk, but not typical rooftops:



Accordingly, there is:



Occupied Warsaw:



Palace in Warsaw:



Occupied Ghent. Feel the difference:



Trade weekdays occupied Ghent:



How much product?



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