Ardennes Offensive in Color

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Hello everyone,

I am sure some of you have already seen it, but just to be sure, it’s a very interesting video (thanks to Lert for this one).

When it comes to war and historical movies from it, most people automatically imagine black and white – but there are some color movies as well, which give the war an entirely new “meaning” – it’s sort of chilling to see all these things in color, it makes them much more real. Real people, real vehicle, real fates.

Here’s a set of clips from the last German major offensive of the war, Ardennes. Enjoy.

 

24 thoughts on “Ardennes Offensive in Color”

  1. Until i know the last great german offensive in war was Frühlingserwachen (Spring Awakening) 6 – 16 March 1945 in Hungary to retake Budapest.

    Apart this i feel strange when see a WWII movie in colour… looks more like a movie than in black and white (i feel it less real).

      • I refer that i see the colored WWII REAL images like a 30-40s western movie colored… less real than in white and black.

        • I know what did you mean.
          Sometimes, black/white-colored is more realistic than rich-colored for some reason.
          But for me, I think this is already as realistic as it was in the battle.

  2. Looking at that video makes me wonder about humans and humanity…Instead of reachin to the stars we consume ourselfs in mercyless wars….! The king tiger looks so scarry…a kiling machine…imagine all the deads and broken destinys…fuck human tards and fuck war

  4. Might want to change the title as it is just a montage of colourised footage. Not specific to any campaign or year.

  6. It is a montage of colorized film from the Ardennes, the Eastern Front, Training Films, Propaganda, etc. I’ve seen a few of them in the original B&W. Very interesting and poignant, specially the dead family.

  7. If You like colorized ww2 videos, you should check “Apocalypse”, a french documentary series. 15 hours of colorized videos, some never seen before.
    I’ll post yt links later.

  9. Very clearly colorized from black and white. The colours are not correct on the uniforms (Panzer crews wore black, except for some of the SS units and StuG units, which wore camo or artillery grey coveralls), the sky is always the same shade of blue, the faces too red, the fire is a straight orange. They also messed with the aspect ratio to make it fit a widescreen monitor.

    That set aside, it’s interesting to note that it shows quite a few images of Panzer IIIs working in concert with the infantry. I know that Pz III variants were often attached to the Schewere Panzer Abteilung to augment their numbers in the books (and provided some mobile support, even if the tanks were relatively obsolete by 1943).