I don't know why, but this picture fascinates me. It was taken as the Allied Forces came into Nazi Germany. High ranking Nazis knew they would be killed and there was the rampant rumor that the Allies would leave no survivors of those found with officials. This is a mid level Nazi official, and two of his secretaries that committed suicide as they saw the troops advancing on them. It is such a quiet, yet disturbing scene. Not graphic, yet the epitome of a lost war. They knew they had been involved in horrific war crimes and so they poisioned themselves. Even though it is quiet and eeriely calm, you can see the last things they touched, odd assortments of what they found important in those last moments are just laying there. It must have been terrible in that room, before everything went still.
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