Figure 1.-- We do not know what is going on here. There is some writing on the back with the location. It reads: Near Pecinci, a farmer's boy. Pecinci is in Serbia (Yuguslavia at that time). The German officer here with the pistol is patting a peasant boy on the forehead, He has a World War I EK2 ribbin and a spange. The Germans invaded Yugoslavia during Aril 1941. The officer doe not look menancing nor the boy scared, but the boy does not seem to be as amused as the German soldier. Unsaid here is the degree to which this boy's future would have been determined by his ethnicity had the NAZIs pervailed.

We do not know what is going on here. And at first did not know where the photograph was taken. There is some writing on the back with the location which we subsequently obtained. It reads: "Near Pecinci, a farmer's boy." Pecinci is in Serbia (Yuguslavia at that time). The German officer here with the pistol is patting a peasant boy on the forehead, He has a World War I EK2 ribbin and a spange. Presumably that woyld mean the photograph was taken after the Polish campaign (September 1939) and we know when the NAZIs invaded Yigoslavia (April 1941). My guess is that the photograph was taken at an early phase if the occupation. Note how flat and treeless the horizon looks. The officer doe not look menancing nor the boy scared, but the boy does not seem to be as amused as the German soldier. Unsaid here is the degree to which this boy's future would have been determined by his ethnicity had the NAZIs pervailed.

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