Anyone else seen this video before?

[Oberon]

I hadn't:

http://www.stage6.com/Pur-Hitler-und...-U-Boot-Fahrer

Is it archive footage? Or from a film made post-war?

[Jimbuna]

AFAIK, some of it was early colour film and some was converted from black and white :hmm:

[Mush Martin]

He has a full speech to the hilter jugend on You tube somewhere that
I saw also.

I think the best colour film comes from the munich arts festival in
july 1939 really striking footage

its frightening how normal everything seems.

M

[_Seth_]

Here's the youtube link:

*Seen it before, but nice find anyway, matey!*

[STEED]

Vote Hitler for 12 years of HELL.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by STEED

Vote Hitler for 12 years of HELL.

Can't see it taking off as a campaign slogan STEED, you'd be better off just renaming the party to something like, I dunno, New NSDAP?

Anyway, that's quite enough politics!

It's very easy, or at least, I think, as someone who's only been on this Earth a relatively short time, that it's easy to view the past as a different planet, particularly in years before your birth. Colour footage like this really brings it back to you that it wasn't a different planet or hundreds of years ago, it was, in the words of GWX (and I love this little touch they added):

"Not so long ago..."

[Cohaagen]

I definately agree with you there, Oberon. A great many people, particularly teenagers, tend to find it very hard to empathise with people in B/W footage and photographs. At the risk of generalising, most kids today don't have great powers of visualisation. A while ago I took a load of 14-16 yr olds from the local community centre for a history class - I first had them mess around filming each other with a couple of DV cameras, then played them footage from the "WW2 In Colour" DVD. It was striking how much more they identified with the people in the colour film - and how engaged they became with the subject - after first seeing themselves on screen.

[Jimbuna]

Well....it's certainly an era none of us should forget

[Oberon]

Amen to that Jim, history repeats itself because people haven't learnt.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Amen to that Jim, history repeats itself because people haven't learnt.

EU = The 4th Reich in the early stages.

[Chock]

Some of that footage is on a DVD I have 'Battle of the Atlantic' by Karl Heinz Geiger, an AV Media production from 1991 (DVD is 2006 Boulevard Entertainment) which comprises mostly WW2 German documentary footage. It's all B&W on the DVD I have, so I guess it was hand tinted at a much later date. Worth having if you can find it, I paid the princely sum of 1.99 for it in Sainsburys.

Chock