Die Farbe des Krieges

Hitler's pilot and an American businessman, soldiers of the Wehrmacht and cameramen of the Allies, they all had a common passion: they filmed history in color. Thus, unique documents have survived the passage of time, images of Nazi terror and Allied resistance, images of death at the front and at home, images of crime and retribution, of downfall and new beginnings. German tanks roll westward in the war against France in 1940. Footage that was reenacted for the first Nazi documentary film in color. Title: “Artillery Intervenes.” Only a single copy survived the end of the war, lying unused in the Federal Film Archive for decades. The color footage suddenly brings the war, which generations knew only in black and white, very close. And the scenes from the French campaign are not the only color films from World War II.