Figure 1.--Here we see another unidentified Wehrmacht family. There are three boys dressed in suits for the portrait with their mother and father. They look go be about 6-15 years old. The two younger boys wear short pants suits. Note that they do not wear uniforms even though at least one boy, perhaps two was old enough to be in the Hitler Youth. That suggests that the family was not a strong NAZI family. Perhaps they were Catholic.

Here we see another unidentified Wehrmacht family. There are three boys dressed in suits for the portrait with their mother and father. They look go be about 6-15 years old. The two younger boys wear short pants suits. Note that they do not wear uniforms even though at least one boy, perhaps two was old enough to be in the Hitler Youth. That suggests that the family was not a strong NAZI family. The NAZIs had a striong presence in the Wehrmacht, but there were also mny officers who were anti-NAZI or apolitical. Perhaps they were Catholic. The portraitv is undated. We suspect it was taken in the early 1940s. The father is a Heer officer, but without a color image, we can't tell the branch. It is a little tricky interpreting the rank insignia, but we think he was a major or colonel. The body language is interesting. Neither of the parents is touching the boys, even the youngest boys.

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