What image or event of 2nd World War has moved you the most?

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Gott
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Post by Gott » 25 Jul 2002 16:33

Homer martin wrote:It is a nice picture, just how many of that item does he have? 10? One for each time zone?

The Russian photograher did a good job on the Reichstag photo, i would love to see what is on the rest of the photos on that roll of film.

/hgm
It was specially posed, it was Bolshevik propaganda in progress.
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Post by Juha Hujanen » 25 Jul 2002 17:00

2 pics comes to my mind.First one is taken in road of Raattee during Winter War.It shows 2 Russian in foxhole frozen to death.They didn't want to surrender so they just died to cold.
2 years ago while i was chatting in irc,i talked with Russian girl who had moved to Switzerland.Because it was exatly 60 years in that day when Winter War ented,i said that to her.She said that hers granmothers brother had fought in Raattee with Russian army and had died there.In his last letter he described how cold it is and how he is affaid that he could die there in far from his home.He was just 18 old kid.Mayby he was one of the frozen Russians in picture.It really maked me think. 8O

Second one is picture taken in Hiroshima.Just shadows of people in the road,they bodies simply vaporised in the blast....
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hi Gott

Post by Homer martin » 25 Jul 2002 20:37

Yes Gott the Reichstag photo is a posed shot, it has been covered on the history channel in one of the programs about the fall of Berlin. I want to see the rest of the shots on that roll of film.

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Post by Gott » 25 Jul 2002 21:31

Homer martin wrote:Yes Gott the Reichstag photo is a posed shot, it has been covered on the history channel in one of the programs about the fall of Berlin. I want to see the rest of the shots on that roll of film.

/hgm
I bet the rest of the film roll is pictures of drunken Russian soldiers, because at the time the Russians captured Berlin, Russians all acted like they are in a rave party, they looked like they got all high and stuff.
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Post by Caldric » 25 Jul 2002 21:59

I read that the Stalin thought the American Marine's raising the flag on Iwo Jima had such a pyshcological impact on American's that he wanted something similar.


Do not know how true that is really, I never really looked into it, but sounds reasonable. The Iwo Jima flag was a major moral boost, and is still a great symbol of the United States Military, not just the Marines.
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Post by Benoit Douville » 26 Jul 2002 00:47

Iwo Jima:

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Post by harry palmer » 30 Jul 2002 13:55

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Post by craigob » 07 Aug 2002 04:05

valadezaj wrote:The image from world war 2 that has moved me the most is the one from Hitler's last birthday. Seeing him shake of the hands of the youth about to die in the upcoming battle for Berlin somehow seems a fitting end.
hello all.. this is a great thread.. has anyone have this picture that is being mentioned above?..

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Post by Caldric » 07 Aug 2002 05:49

Harry what is going on in that Photo? Is that a French soldier on the ground or UK? I know the one appearing to either calm him or help is a German....
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Post by tonyh » 07 Aug 2002 11:22

Looks like British battledress and helmet to me.

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Post by Davey Boy » 07 Aug 2002 11:46

Here's mine:

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A Polish girl weeps over the blood-ridden body of her sister, killed by the Germans in September 1939.
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Post by subskipper » 07 Aug 2002 14:10

Harry or anyone alse have any more info on that picture with German and the Britt?


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Post by Davey Boy » 07 Aug 2002 14:42

Caldric wrote:Soviets putting that nasty looking flag on top of the Reichstag!

What horror! :)


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Actually well deserved I suppose.

Imagine if there was a sudden gust of wind and that guy with the flag fell off. Would we know about it if it happened?
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Post by tonyh » 07 Aug 2002 15:01

Hetman, I've seen that photo captioned as everything from "dead Jews in Auschwitz" to "German bomb victims in Berlin". How do you know its from Poland?

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Post by Homer martin » 07 Aug 2002 17:48

The photograh of the 10 year old Polish girl by her dead sister's side can be found on page 183 of the Time-Life The Third Reich: The Reach for the Empire book.
The note on page 182 in the book says the photographer recalled that the youngster "leaned down and touched the dead girl's face and drew back in horror. 'O my beautiful sister! she wailed, 'What have they done to you?'"
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