[Leica] James Nachtwey on Ukraine

[Nathan Wajsman]

My father fought in World War II, covering 2500 km from Russia to Berlin between 1943 and 1945. Some time in 1945, already in Germany, one evening  the unit he was leading arrived in a village in eastern Germany and stopped there for the night. A bit later, screams were heard from a house in the village. Two Russian soldiers were raping a German woman while her two small sons were looking on. My father drew his pistol which stopped the ordeal. Fast forward 30+ years. We were already living in Denmark. The two little boys were now engineers in Hamburg and somehow they tracked down my father in Aarhus and invited him to come down to visit. Such is life.

Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
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> On 12 May 2022, at 14:44, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> I thank the New Yorker for opening the pay wall so that these could be
> seen.
> 
> My college Russian professor was an eastern Germany refugee that saw first
> hand what the Russian forces did that closely mimics what we are seeing
> today.  What was tolerable once due to circumstances then begets
> intolerable behavior now.
> 
> On Mon, May 2, 2022, 2:27 PM Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> wrote:
> 
>> In my opinion, James Nachtwey is the best contemporary war photographer
>> and one of the best who has ever lived. The current issue of the New
>> Yorker has a portfolio of his recent pictures from Ukraine. And it's
>> online here if you are a subscriber:
>> https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/portfolio/05/09/the-costs-of-war
>> 
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