From 1937 color films document everyday life in Hitler's Germany. Eva Braun and Hans Baur, Adolf Hitler’s personal pilot, are among the first amateur filmmakers to expose the new celluloid. This creates unique images of the dictator's public appearances and his private life on Obersalzberg. Scanned in high-resolution HD, the footage of Hitler and his entourage tells a particularly realistic tale.

During the war against the Soviet Union, 35mm color footage was also used for Nazi propaganda. Hitler's pilot accompanies the dictator on a visit to the troops at the front. Hollywood director John Ford shoots spectacular color footage with his crew in North Africa and on behalf of US President Roosevelt, a camera crew was present at the Casablanca Conference in January 1943. There, the Allies demand the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany.

In 1944, in southern England, Allied troops were getting ready to land in Normandy. US soldier Jack Lieb was there with his amateur camera. On D-Day, John Ford shot in color with his camera crews. His Hollywood colleague George Stevens also landed in northern France with his team on 6 June 1944. Those men documented the advance and finally the liberation of Paris up close.