During WW2, not all German soldiers voluntarily joined the military, a lot of them were drafted. Some of them didn't hunt the Jews but instead aided them like the one pictured. When I read books about WW2, I read passages about these soldiers. I remember one that gave a cookie to a child on a train, or one that walked into a shed filled with Jews but told his colleagues there was no one there.
That's true but this was in the DDR in 1961. The boy was not a jewish boy (well maybe he was but that wasn't the point) - on the day the Berlin wall was build he ended up on the wrong side of the wall and his family was on the other side. The soldier had orders not to let anyone pass but he couldn't let a little child be apart from his family. Everything you wrote is true but this picture does not show WW2.
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