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Minette Wagner posing opposite the Kaiser's Palace, Berlin, 1937. View full size.
What a difference a few years makes; this shot was taken by my Uncle Walter, a tipper truck driver in the R.A.S.C. stationed in Berlin in 1945. Unfortunately US Army daytrippers spoiled his shot!
"That’s in the centre of Berlin. They’re Americans. I was going to take a photograph of this statue, and then these wagons drove in, and they started getting out. So I just took the photograph anyway!"
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