Hitler's telephone in his private apartment

[mienaichizu]

Hitler's telephone in his private apartment in the Reich's Chancellery, a Siemens and Halske telephone

[McHeath]

Those are odd looking phones.  Wonder if it survived?  Funny to think about how the telephone has been used for good and bad things since it's invention, in this case very bad.

[mienaichizu]

maybe that phone doesn't survive since the Chancellery was badly bombarded and ransacked by the advancing Red Army

there is one similar phone on bid now in eBay, I think Hobie posted the link in one of the threads here about German phones

right Hobie?

[PSGreg]

mienaichizu,
                          How did you manage to come across that photo?
.....and a color photo as well from that era.  Terrific!
Best,
         Greg

[mienaichizu]

mienaichizu,
                          How did you manage to come across that photo?
.....and a color photo as well from that era.  Terrific!
Best,
         Greg

by just surfing the net, I was also amazed when I saw that photo and it is color, from the 30's

I used to be a researcher on Nazi history before

[McHeath]

Here is what is supposed to be the world's oldest color photograph, from 1861:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tartan_Ribbon.jpg

This one is from 1915:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prokudin-Gorskii-12.jpg

There is also a nice series of color photographs of the French army in WW1 at this site:

http://www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com/

[mienaichizu]

nice WW1 color photographs mcheath

[PSGreg]

Are you familiar with the Feldgrau site?

[McHeath]

Fledgrau?  Never heard of it.

[mienaichizu]

yah I've seen that site but i do mostly research on Nazi atrocities