Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/05/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What a story! Cheers Jayanand On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 1:41 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > 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 > photo at frozenlight.eu > > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.frozenlight.eu > > YNWA > > > > > > 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 > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >