Ideas: Eastern Front 1941 - 1942 (1 Viewer)

[Andanna]

Matt, some ideas from one of your followers for the "Stalingrad" range:

Instead of the pontoon bridge (1941):

Italians, but who cares?

Long overdue - camplife:

Standing on the tank - forget the tank riders, let's do a tank stander:

Sewastopol, but a great image (Matt, do you know Warhammer 40K?):

Agreed: Entering Stalingrad is dangerous and can cost you your life. A must-have:

Another must-have: ein Kraftrad (Krad), whereby the photo is amply called "Brotherhood":

The heat is on: Who wants shirtless British or Aussies if you can have near-naked German artillerists supplementing the 150 howitzer ...

And PS: Since Lady Gaga's video, Alejandro, this is the beach fashion for 2011. Better get into the gym ...


Who needs a train to cross a river if you can have a furnicular crossing the shelf?

 

[Andanna]

Long overdue, too - let's not have Beau Geste all the glory of producing a German officer riding an exotic animal:

What kind of fashion statement is this in 1941?

And what is he wearing on his back? Does not look like loot.

All images from today's Spiegel on-line Edition.

 

[MapleLeaf]

Great photos Andanna

 

[daruss]

standing tank rider -great shot and great idea!

 

[Eignub]

i support all of them! especially the camels!

 

[Vezzolf]

Good Ideas, especialy like best the motorcycle photo "brotherhood".....Thanks for posting....where did you locate these photos?

 

[SteveDavid]

Good Ideas, especialy like best the motorcycle photo "brotherhood".....Thanks for posting....where did you locate these photos?

here you go...

http://einestages.spiegel.de/external/ShowTopicAlbumBackground/a22826/l0/l0/F.html#featuredEntry

 

[jazzeum]

I think the idea of a destroyed Stalin statue and the camels are great ideas, particularly the statue as a dio piece. Just the novelty of that would ensure sales.

 

[debrito]

Not Stalin, Lenin...

I think the idea of a destroyed Stalin statue and the camels are great ideas, particularly the statue as a dio piece. Just the novelty of that would ensure sales.

 

[jazzeum]

Not Stalin, Lenin...

Let's have one of him, too :smile2:

 

[graycap]

About time the Russians got some reinforcements - bring on a T-34! Remember the 70th anniversary of Op Barbarossa in just under three weeks time.

 

[Blowtorch]

Camels & sign!

 

[daruss]

I would also like some "non-action" poses of HERR!
Take a look.
http://www.ww2incolor.com/popular?g2_itemId=9153

and check out the "tan stug" in the background!

 

[Blowtorch]

and check out the "tan stug" in the background!

There's actually 3 in that photo, and panning left provides two more!


The troop pic is actually cropped. You can see the building in the original (Der Spiegel Nr.51/16.12.02)

 

[Gebhard]

There's actually 3 in that photo, and panning left provides two more!
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The troop pic is actually cropped. You can see the building in the original (Der Spiegel Nr.51/16.12.02)
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Great work :wink2: I'm writing you in for the Pulitzer Prize for excellence in on line journalism :salute::. Great shots . Regards Gebhard

 

[daruss]

Love to have the unit pic framed! Could be one of the best German pictures of the entire war!

 

[fmethorst]

What are people's thoughts regarding the location of this picture?

Is it here?

Stalingrad Tractor factory:

 

[Phantom Warrior]

It's hard to tell. It certainly looks like the 2nd photo with the soldiers at the base of a building with a sawtooth roof is where you put the red arrow. And looking down the street to the end, there is a low building which looks right. I have trouble reconciling the long 4 storey building on the left in the picture with what is in the air photo. I'm wondering if the photos were taken before the building on the left was destroyed - the air photo shows only a rubble filled lot where the left hand building should be?

To me it looks like the photo with the soldiers was taken down the road as the stugs were approaching and the other photo was when the same two stugs were close and the shot was directly across the street.

Another question that early in the war - was there colour photography in the field or are the photos colourized?

Terry

 

[Mitch]

I have these pics in B&W. I think its the current fashion to colour WWII imagery. I have no faith in the colour interpretations of these magazines.
Mitch

 

[fmethorst]

It's hard to tell. It certainly looks like the 2nd photo with the soldiers at the base of a building with a sawtooth roof is where you put the red arrow. And looking down the street to the end, there is a low building which looks right. I have trouble reconciling the long 4 storey building on the left in the picture with what is in the air photo. I'm wondering if the photos were taken before the building on the left was destroyed - the air photo shows only a rubble filled lot where the left hand building should be?

To me it looks like the photo with the soldiers was taken down the road as the stugs were approaching and the other photo was when the same two stugs were close and the shot was directly across the street.

Another question that early in the war - was there colour photography in the field or are the photos colourized?

Terry

Terry, the first picture I posted was taken August 23, 1942 which was the day the bombing started (in the afternoon). This area looks untouched at this point.

Here is a picture later in the battle. You can see considerable damage. The low angle of the sun highlights the height of various structures. Perhaps the building in the left side of the frame is the one I indicated with the arrow. It looks quite tall.

As for color photography I have found far more early war German color photographs than late war, probably a reflection of the deteriorating situation for Germany. I have seen the photo above in both color and black and white.