Youngster of the Hitlerjugend outside the monastery walls of Ardenne Abbey in July 1944. He is carrying an MG-42 configured as a light support weapon. American G.I.s called the MG-42 “Hitler’s buzz saw” because of the way it cut down troops in swaths.

March 18, 2003: Denmark’s Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, after being doused in red paint due to Denmark’s participation in the Iraq War (1240×826)

My father at 20 in 1928

Battlefield grave of an SS MG gunner at the Kursk salient, 1943

My grandparents at the dance where they met, 1948. They married a year later. Picture taken in London.