This is one of the most famous photos of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. People have tried to identify the little boy with his hands raised over the years without any success. The SS Trooper with his face to the camera (dumb move) was identifed however as SS- Rottenfuehrer Josef Bloesche by Polish investigators and hunted down. He was tried for war crimes in Poland in 1969 and executed in July of that year. All the captured Jews were sent to the camps and all are believed to have perished there.

Captured during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising

The american cemetery at Henri-Chapelle shortly after the fightings. Two belgian nuns pray at the graves of their liberators from german occupation. There are many german names on the crosses, especially the 1st US infantry divsion -which fought in the Battle of Aachen- had many german-americans and offspring of german emigrants among them.

The graves of the liberators

..., a better one you won't find. The battle drums were beating, he was by my side, in even step and stride.
A bullet came a-flying, was it meant for me, or you? It struck down my comrade, he lay at my feet, like a part of me. His hand still reaches out to me, while I reload my rifle. I cannot give you my hand, rest on in life eternal, my good comrade. (''Der gute Kamerad'' from 1809, played throughout german military history at funeral services, still with the Bundeswehr today.)