Gudrun M Jordan
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Gudrun M Jordan
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Tim Jordan
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01/28/2015
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AncientFaces
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04/02/2015
Such an emotional photo. Sweet and innocent young Gudrun Jordan taking her dolly for a stroll in Nazi Germany.
Michael Moritz
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01/28/2015
Got to be a photograph of Germany 1930's with flag in the background of the cute child.
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Was she Jewish or Christian? Whichever she is brings out a different but equally disturbing emotion in me
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I am thinking the same thing, seeing the NAZI FLAG behind her
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If she is Jewish her life span could be shortened in that era. If she is a child of Nazis or Nazi sympathizers she will grow up surrounded by Predjudice and if her family are merely trying to survive the terrible times she will grow up apprehensively. At the time the picture was taken she was an innocent tyke.
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Jordan is a Jewish surname. Maybe. No Star of David.
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The sweet child, what ever her heritage, know nothing of the atrocities to come.. I hope she had a good life.
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She's just a child. No matter what her background when that picture was taken she was an innocent.
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My initial thought when I saw the picture and the Nazi flag in the back ground was What ever happened to this sweet innocent little girl? .
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She is just a Child , Catherine Hudson Green !!!! Not German , Christian , Jewish ..just a little Girl !
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The German's didn't see children as just children. Especially Jewish ones.
Carrie Zapf
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04/02/2015
I think you misunderstood... I believe she was just wondering if she survived.
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True, but aren't we suppose to learn from the past. She is a sweet little girl living among the evil of Nazi rule. It doesn't matter what category or group "they" would have put her in. WE are suppose to be better than that. History .... Like it or hate it. It's true. Great photo of History.
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It matters to the interpretation of the photo. Did she die in the camps? Or in the bombings? Were the people who bought her the dolly vehement Nazis, or just German people who were caught up in the movement? Did they resist? Where did they end up? It doesn't matter in the sense that she's just a child but the context changes the way you interpret the photo. It's not a positive or a negative necessarily.
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I know she is just a child, an innocent. My query was more to the environment she grew up in (if indeed she got to grow up at all) and that relates to how poignant the photo is for me. She may be innocent but her elders may not have been if you see my point.If they were Nazis or sympathizers she would grow up with a different ( ie barbaric) view of the world and the atrocities her "people" were inflicting on others. Obviously she was alive in Nazi Germany and that HAD to have influenced her childhood .
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She did get to grow up. The link says she was born in 1938 and died in 2009.
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same year I was born. I hope she had a good life
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@Annette Masloh, Can't Catherine just ask a question that wonders what future awaited her? It's a valid point to wonder. It's normal. Of course the little girl is innocent. That goes without saying. But, really, would you like people to be so worried about being misinterpreted that they are afraid to voice a logical and natural question that the photo is practically asking us to consider? If we don't think about the photo, we are not making use of this historical record.
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Kelly, i think you should read up on the Anabaptist resistance, and Dietrich Bonhoffer , and then try to understand the difference between nationality and political power.Jewish children who survived and avoided concentration camps did so because of Germans who did not agree with the power politic and risked everything because of it.
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Yes you can't paint all Germans with a broad brush of Nazism for sure. But THAT always raises more questions with me!! I was in Germany in 2010 and all around me were normal people going about their normal daily lives and all I could think of when I saw someone in their 70's was "what were you doing during the war?" Were they SS officers back then, actively killing Jewish people? Were they part of the administration stamping documents that sent people to concentration camps? Were they young Hitler Youth? Were they caught up in a movement beyond their control? And then what? Did they just go back to their normal lives? It's all so fascinating to me. (and horrifying) I know I am not explaining myself adequately. But I wonder these things.
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Liviu Cretu we all sometimes forget that we were all once sweet and innocent babies..... What happens after.....smh
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no, don't forget, I cherish those days,and think back to them to ground myself sometimes. : )
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De chaque côté du Rhin, des enfants qui ne comprenaient pas, et qui ont conservé le traumatisme d'une guerre qui les marqueront pour le restant de leur vie. Ils furent nos parents pour les plus jeunes d'entre nous, nos aînés pour les moins jeunes...
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She and I are the same age in 1940 and I am so blessed to be in America! So hard to wrap my mind around the horrors so many faced during that time!
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looks like all of her playmates have been taken away already, sad photo
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What the American doing with the Native Indian , the send them to Disneyland for fun? HELL NO ,I think a lot be in Camps , what do the American in Hiroschima? Australien with the Aborigines ??? So many Contrys still be mad , so u be the biggest Rassict Catherine Hudson Green u need really bad help !
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For u Catherine Hudson Green
Quadir Sailani
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Love this page! I share your photos all the time! Come and join and share history!
Jerri Lujan
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04/07/2015
she is so beautiful and unaware of all the terrible things around her.
Jeanet Groenink
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04/14/2015
she was a sweet child! Despite the horrors of those times...
Debbie Biggers
Kristen Taylor
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04/22/2015
Beautiful photo capturing a beautiful moment
Desiree' Erhart
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05/21/2015
Just looking at the photo creates such an eerie feeling of ghosts walking around. I am so grateful that this little girl was given a long life. I seriously hope she had a good life though. How do we explain the words what we feel when we see such disturbing photos like this. Angry, sad, helpless and what not. Just saying... thank you for sharing because we all have to be reminded of this and pray that history doesnt repeat it self... yeah I know.
Ahmed Ali Al Kashif
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07/15/2015
She may have survived a dark future.... I hope she made it out of the war
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