Group of boys in Hitler Youth, Germany, 1939
The boys stand rigid, their faces too young to carry the weight of the world but there they are, eyes set hard against the future. They are dressed in uniforms not of their own making, their youth twisted and forged into something cold, something sharp. Each boy looks the same as the next, all turned out in rows, as if the soul had been wrung from them and replaced with something hollow. Yet the light in their eyes betrays them, a flicker of confusion, uncertainty masked behind the veneer of purpose, handed down from men who sought to shape them into weapons.
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