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Hi,
That is truly a striking and beautiful picture.
I know what many of you mean, and I felt the same up until I really learned about WWII and the Wehrmacht. I recently found a book titled BLITZKRIEG and it showed hundreds of personal photos from German soldiers fighting throughout Poland, France, North Africa, and the Low Countries during the war. What immediately struck me and made me think were the pictures of Officers posing with their buddies and making funny faces or the German soldiers talking with small children and posing for pictures. These photos would normally mean nothing, but these were personal pictures taken from the collections of soldiers who fought during the war, not staged propoganda photo shoots. It really made me think. I realized that most soldiers fighting in the war (regulars members of the Wehrmacht) were just- as Moonduck said it- G.I. Joes, people who were pressured to or felt a need to fight for Germany as many Americans and Brits did during the war. Sure, they fought for a despicable regime, but they didn't get to choose who they fought for. Their country entered a war through no fault of their own and they were forced to fight.
Thanks,
Manga
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