I received an email the other day which consisted of a lot of old photos of famous people, including the one above. I'm not very good at estimating ages, but I'd guess this cute little boy was about a year old at the time. Taking a closer look at him, it occurred to me that I wouldn't have had a clue about his identity if the email hadn't included a caption over the photo. And, being rather skeptical about the veracity of the content of such emails, off I scooted to see what I could find via DuckDuckGo.
Online sources confirmed the caption, and also provided photos of the same boy as he grew to adulthood. Here's one of him, at what? About ten?
Any idea about who it is yet? The photographs are obviously quite old, definitely taken before colour photography became ubiquitous. In the one above, he looks like he's been pulled away from something he was enjoying, had his hair quickly, but not very well, brushed, and has been told to stand in front of the camera:
"Oh mum! Do I really have to?"
"Lawks a mercy! Will you just stand still for a moment! And wipe that silly grin off your face!"
Here he is again, all grown up and looking quite debonnaire in his button-down collar, and with a wistful look in his eye.
A scientist perhaps? Or a teacher? Maybe a Doctor of medicine? An inventor? A Nobel prize winner? Have you guessed it yet?
Without the 'trademark' moustache, he doesn't look so very evil, until you know who he is. These are pictures of Adolf Hitler. But I'm wondering if my descriptions of the photos influenced how you thought about them. Assuming you hadn't seen them before, and were unaware of the subject's identity, did you think "there's an evil looking specimen!"
Just curious.
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