World War I in colour: Rare photographs

<p>My wife sent me this link. She knows how much of a love I have for old photos and in particular History. Enjoy.<br>

<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3403612/All-quiet-Western-Rare-colour-photographs-capture-daily-lives-French-soldiers-away-battlefields-WW1.html">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3403612/All-quiet-Western-Rare-colour-photographs-capture-daily-lives-French-soldiers-away-battlefields-WW1.html</a></p>

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<p>Thanks Javier. Beautiful color photos mostly from the Haut-Rhin region of Alsace. All very idyllic photos taken during peaceful periods between the bloody battles that killed 17 million people and wounded some 20 million. Today you can visit all these places which mostly are quite traditional Alsacien villages. </p><div></div>

<p>Thanks for posting, Javier.</p>

<p>Really enjoy walking back in time with these photographs.</p>

<p>There is a something, something, looking at folk frozen in time by a camera who were once living and breathing talking folk. In their own world of time, with thoughts, ambitions, and good times and troubles. In that moment of the photograph they had a present, future and past.</p>

<p>Now all is left, images frozen in time by a camera...otherwise they would be forgotten and lost, in the passing of time.</p>

<p>Distance memories of the past and forgotten. The endless march of time.</p>

<p>Very interesting. Thanks for posting.</p>

<p>Well said Allen! Thanks for showing these living pictures of a dead past, or is it a living past? The shock waves of WWI still reverberate in the present. Thanks Javier!</p>

<p>I thought I was looking at the latest stills from the newest war movie. Awe inspiring images. I had to look a few times, truly interesting to see in color. </p>

<p>Thank you Javier. The people are gone but the images are a tribute to their bravery in a war the repercussions of which lasted much longer, and arguably, persist today. !0,000 soldiers killed in the few instants of a rapid series of explosiuons. What a waste of human life in a crazy war. Perhaps the progeny of these persons can find some of these images of great importance to their families. These photos are ostensibly regional and during critical times. If the Lumière brothers color cameras were only available from 1917, it is strange that photos are all from 1917 and photos of 1918 are not presented. Perhaps everything was destroyed in Soissons and the other towns by the end of 1917 and the war and photography had shifted to other areas. The photo of the 11th century Abbaye de Saint Jean des Vignes was only partly destroyed in the war, as the previous century had seen to its principal destruction, like Cluny and others.</p>