Unidentified KM commander Hugo Jaeger 1942

[West-Front]

Unidentified KM commander Hugo Jaeger 1942

[Tychsen]

He does not turn up as a U-Boat Commander , yet here he is wearing the white cap on the bow of a training boat.

[Heeresbergführer]

Hugo Jaeger is not a U-Boat Oberleutnant...he's the photographer taking the color photos which LIFE magazine owns. Jaeger buried all of his film and sold it to LIFE after the war.

[West-Front]

Hugo Jaeger is not a U-Boat Oberleutnant...

In 1945, when the Allies pushed towards Munich, the photographer found himself face-to-face with six American soldiers and feared he would be arrested when they found the thousands of color negatives he had hidden in a leather suitcase. Instead, the soldiers threw open the case to discover a bottle of cognac, which they eagerly opened and shared with Jaeger, ignoring the transparencies beneath.

To preserve the photos, he buried them in 12 glass jars on the outskirts of Munich, returning over the years to check on them, repack and rebury them.In 1955, Jaeger finally retrieved all 2,000 transparencies and stored them in a bank vault before selling them to LIFE magazine in 1965.

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[Tychsen]

Cheers gents that makes it " a different picture"