*** boys historical clothing : new pages June 2022

Boys' Historical Clothing: New Pages-June 2022

Figure 1.--Here we see a German family, there is no accompaning information, but it is obviously during World War II. And it seems to us to be an urban middle-class family. We believe that the portrait was taken in Spring 1943, although the yearis only a guess. While we believe that it was common knowledge within the Wehrmacht that Jews were being avtiveky murdered, we kso believe that knowldge of what was transpiring was not uniformly dispersed throughout the German military, even the Heer (Army). The soldier here looks to be a recently drafted middle-aged man. The dafting of such men occurred as German military fortunes declined after late-1942. It is at this time the Germans faced inceasing manpower shortage as the Allies closed in. If this was indeed the case, the low-ranking soldier here would have known less about the Holocaust than German troops earlier in the War. By 1943, most of the killing was being done behind barbed wire in the carefully sealed off death and other camps run by the SS. Ntice the rather grim expression on the solfier';s face. We suspct what was probably on this father's mind was the safety of his family, both from the expanding Allied bombing and the surging Red Army in the East.

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