[Leica] was Best known photo ? now jumping or falling

[DouglasMSharp at netscape.net (Douglas M. Sharp)]

Probably the best known photo in Germany is somebody else jumping , but 
definitely not posed.
A young East German soldier hurdling the barbed-wire between East and 
West Germany just before the
partition of Berlin was completed. Interestingly the soldier was charged 
and convicted in the GDR, not only for
desertion , but also for the theft of a complete set of uniform and 
equipment. The FRG courts are rumoured to have
upheld the latter conviction, unfortunately I cannot verify this.

Another was staged, Evgueni Khaldei, a propaganda photographer has 
admitted in many interviews
that it was too dangerous to get the shot during continued fighting 
around the Reichstag and that the whole
thing was redone a few days later.
The other version is that one of the Soviet soldiers on the original was 
seen to be sporting 2 watches on one arm, having seen this
the censors in Moscow sent Khaldei back to shoot te flag scene again.
In similar fashion a lot of the footage of street fighting in Berlin  
were shot afterBerlin fell and the Wehrmacht had surrendered .
Douglas

R. Clayton McKee schrieb:

>Philippe Orlent offers, in reference to Capa's Falling Soldier... 
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>>>And rumours go the photo is faked.
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>That's been pretty exhaustively debunked.  Richard Whelan, one of
>Capa's biographers, wrote extensively about the controversy in a
>prefatory essay to "Heart of Spain" which accompanied a show at the
>Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid in 1999.  (I 
>didn't see the show; I DO have the book.)
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>The man's name was Federico Borrell Garcia; he was killed September 
>5, 1936 at Cerro Muriano.  It seems that the cartridge cases he was
>wearing were unique to one particular unit, custom made to the design
>of its commanding officer... and that unit only lost one man in that
>battle.  His younger brother, Everisto, was also in the battle and
>confirmed that the photograph was his brother and that it matched
>precisely the description he had been given of his brother's death.
>Other family photographs confirm identities.
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>It's real.  
>               Albest,
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>                        Clayton
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