Found Film- WWII period

JusticeiroJusticeiro Registered Users Posts: 1,177 Major grins
edited June 28, 2011 in Street and Documentary
A friend of mine who is a setbuilder for the national theater regularly cruises the twice yearly "Weird Trash Day" to find prop materials. He came across these negatives, in a brown paper envelope. People toss this stuff out all the time, last year he found a box of letters from a soldier on the eastern front, that had been set out with the trash.

Note the address of the Photo lab.

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No idea who these guys are, if anybody recognizes background objects, let me know. I am guessing they are upper middle class (look like officer types, alpine troops so they know how to ski.) This might bu Austria or Italy.

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  • ToshidoToshido Registered Users Posts: 759 Major grins
    edited June 26, 2011
    There is a member here, M38A1 (I think), that is a WW2 reenactor. he might be able to identify the uniforms and from there narrow down where these pictures were taken.

    If you are looking for information on them I would actually try finding a WW2 re-enacting forum and posting them there. Re-enactors are pretty serious amateur historians, some are actually just historians as well.

    Love the pictures and found them very interesting. I think that fortress in the background of one of them looks vaguely familiar as well.
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  • eoren1eoren1 Registered Users Posts: 2,391 Major grins
    edited June 26, 2011
    Not sure if you follow the NY Times Lens blog but they just had a similar situation and were able to 'crowd source' the answer in hours:
    http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/world-war-ii-mystery-solved-in-a-few-hours/
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  • NmahoochNmahooch Registered Users Posts: 220 Major grins
    edited June 26, 2011
    That is great.. I have a bunch of shots of the Americans in the Pacific from my neighbor who is a wwii veteran.
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  • M38A1M38A1 Registered Users Posts: 1,317 Major grins
    edited June 26, 2011
    I'll pass this thread link to my re-enactment circle and see what they come up with. Will post the results as they come in.

    On a side but related note, I have a big stack of medium format negatives from a whole lot of nuclear testing in NV (Camp Desert Rock, mid-50's) my great uncle shot as a military photographer. If there's interest, I could have some prints done and scans posted...
  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,961 moderator
    edited June 27, 2011
    M38A1 wrote: »
    On a side but related note, I have a big stack of medium format negatives from a whole lot of nuclear testing in NV (Camp Desert Rock, mid-50's) my great uncle shot as a military photographer. If there's interest, I could have some prints done and scans posted...
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  • M38A1M38A1 Registered Users Posts: 1,317 Major grins
    edited June 27, 2011
    My inbox this morning provided this:

    Hey Scott,
    The photos are obviously German Wehrmacht troops , appears to be very early , before the war, pre-invasion of Poland . Perhaps Mid to late 1930s when Germany was training their Geneva Convention approved "home defense force".
    Ed
  • JusticeiroJusticeiro Registered Users Posts: 1,177 Major grins
    edited June 28, 2011
    M38A1 wrote: »
    I'll pass this thread link to my re-enactment circle and see what they come up with. Will post the results as they come in.

    On a side but related note, I have a big stack of medium format negatives from a whole lot of nuclear testing in NV (Camp Desert Rock, mid-50's) my great uncle shot as a military photographer. If there's interest, I could have some prints done and scans posted...

    that would be great. Can you scan the negatives directly? That's what I am doing.
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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited June 28, 2011
    Funny you should post this now...If you haven't seen it, take a look at this "Lens" blog on the NYTimes site last week - and what is most interesting to note is how quickly the internet allowed the 'mystery' to be solved -
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