The German who appears in the photo is not just a German soldier, but a soldier whose photo appeared at the beginning of World War II in the daily press in Nazi Germany with the caption “The ideal German soldier”. Later, this photo was also used as part of a recruitment posters for the Nazi army. A blond, blue-eyed and handsome soldier – the Nazi ideal.
The soldier’s name was Werner Goldberg, and his father was Jewish.
In 1940 Goldberg was expelled from the Nazi army, when a new order of Adolf Hitler also banned the service of someone who was half-Jewish. Goldberg survived the war, along with his father (whom Goldberg rescued at some point from deportation to the notorious dath camp – Auschwitz), and even became a member of the city council of Berlin in his adulthood.
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Goldberg
