WWII negatives: WWII-Axis-3

WWII-AXIS-3

+/- 200 35mm B/W negatives taken during WWII by one soldier.

I am far from done with WWII-AXIS-1, but couldn't stop myself from buying this collection...

Just a quick scan of photos that seem interesting on first glance. Much more upcoming...


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The photographer had a good eye. Some of these are very poignant.

 

I am sure some of them were "very fine people", but I can't get past the evil represented by those uniforms.

 

While I find the uniforms and what they stand for are repugnant, I also think that we are the product of our time and place in history. Looking at historical events from our modern sensibilities, I think we tend to forget that people had very different belief systems in other times. This was brought home to me while I was at Gettysburg, which is an American Civil War battlefield. I was standing at the Angle looking across the field where Pickett's charge happened. I was shocked when I saw that it was a huge open plain without any cover and that soldiers with almost no ammunition were sent to run in lines up towards a line of Union artillery. Frankly I was astonished that any human would run forward into almost certain death and that there were leaders that would send them there. I asked about this at the interpretive center and they said people thought differently then. So I look at these photos and I think of young men who believed in a country and its leaders. Just like those young confederate soldiers.

 

Yes, I agree. I was at Gettysburg a few years ago. It is an amazing place that anyone who is interested in history must experience.

 

The second to last picture if taken of the southside of the animal would reflect my feelings toward their leader and their actions. Sorry, but they look like propaganda pictures of everything nicey nice.

 

@Requiem , amazing historical photos. Thank you for sharing them with us. I am looking forward to more.

 

Sorry for not updating this collection and the others for some time. I am working on way too many projects at the same time. Not Just negatives, but also home movie recordings, audio, video tapes and many other things I am digitizing. Both from my own collection and of others.

I have also been thinking about privacy of the people in these photos. I think everybody deserves it.

I think I will no longer upload photos taken in a private/home setting, and photos with only or mostly children. Most are not that historically interesting anyways.

I would sincerely appricate your opinion on this matter and decision. I feel conflicted.

 

Requiem, what you are doing, preserving this history and the humanity, is extremely important. I commend you for your efforts.

 

I used to be in the newspaper business and the issue of privacy and consent was an issue from time to time - consent is usually impossible in a news photo and most publications will not hesitate to publish a photo regardless of whether people are identifiable. While it is important that you are considering such issues, I don't think that privacy concerns should stop you from publishing photos that are more than 75 years old.

 

It is more an ethical concern for me than legal. The kids didn't ask to be in such a situation with such... government.

Legally it would be difficult to prove you or your parent/grandparent are in these photos or if you are descendant of the photographer.

Because of new EU privacy rules (AVG) a lot of archives In the Netherlands have taken public collections offline due to these rules instanted several years ago. Footage 70-80-90 years old even.

And it has happened that archives had to pay large sums of money to family of the photographer after they were discovered and made claims.

 

A family may also want the archive removed because it puts their ancestors in bad light, such as with WWII photos and films.