German Seaman World War II. Uncredited. Source: http://www.ww2incolor.com.
Met him at a staff party in the late 1970s. New boyfriend of one of my older colleagues. He would have been in his late 50s. Absolute Aryan features. The full head of blond hair, with slight greys, swept back. Angular face. Piercing blue eyes.
Colleague mentioned that he was a German businessman, gushing about how successful he was. Since he was from the same generation as my father, I went up to him and spoke about my father’s times in his twenties, in the airforce and then in the prison camp, and then asked him where he had been during the war.
“In the navy,” he said. Looking at me straight in the eyes, with the piercing blue coming from his own. Not smiling. Looking at me for a long time.
Difficult to commit, let alone be convicted of war crimes, if one is in the navy.
I looked longer at him. He looked longer at me.
We both knew that he hadn’t been in the navy.
German SS Officer. Uncredited. Source: http://www.ww2incolor.com
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