For the next hour, Will didn’t take a single photo. Instead, he walked Klaus through the back alleys of Kreuzberg — not the ruins, but the tiny gardens people had built in bomb craters. The old woman who fed stray cats from her one good plate. The two teenagers laughing while painting a mural over a bullet-scarred wall. The baker who gave Klaus a warm roll, no questions asked.

Will hesitated. Then he raised the Leica. Through the viewfinder, he saw Klaus — not as a symbol of war’s cost, but as a boy. Tired. Brave. Still hungry for the world.

Zeig mal, Will McBride

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(For Klaus. For the pictures we must not forget.)