KK&UK #161
19850201DE Just as a treat because I can't post tomorrow and wishing you all a safe Mayday, I would like to present; Maria Gräfin von M. joined a resistance group against the Nazis already in 1933. During the war the vetinary surgeon helped many jews to escape as well as hiding her husband who was also jewish. There is a story that she suggested to the Nazi officer in charge of the search in her apartment that he should shoot at her sofa if he really believed that there was someone hiding in it, but that he would have to pay for the damage. He desisted and so her husband, who was hiding in there escaped. Later in the war she helped two russian girls out of a children's home, which was handy when the Russians took Berlin as she then got the assignment to tend to the Red Army's horses. Latterly she lived and practised in Kreuzberg, having a chimpansee and a parrot as companions. They don't make them like that anymore. Berlin Germany #blackandwhite #161 #berlinstagram #knownknowns&unknownknowns #art #resistance #vet #realpeople #reallives #truestories #portraits #b&w #photography #instagram #street www.hughes-photography.eu www.hughes-photography.eu www.flickr.com/photos/michael_hughes www.flickr.com/photos/michael_hughes www.hughes.berlin @michaelcameronhughes
KK&UK #161
19850201DE Just as a treat because I can't post tomorrow and wishing you all a safe Mayday, I would like to present; Maria Gräfin von M. joined a resistance group against the Nazis already in 1933. During the war the vetinary surgeon helped many jews to escape as well as hiding her husband who was also jewish. There is a story that she suggested to the Nazi officer in charge of the search in her apartment that he should shoot at her sofa if he really believed that there was someone hiding in it, but that he would have to pay for the damage. He desisted and so her husband, who was hiding in there escaped. Later in the war she helped two russian girls out of a children's home, which was handy when the Russians took Berlin as she then got the assignment to tend to the Red Army's horses. Latterly she lived and practised in Kreuzberg, having a chimpansee and a parrot as companions. They don't make them like that anymore. Berlin Germany #blackandwhite #161 #berlinstagram #knownknowns&unknownknowns #art #resistance #vet #realpeople #reallives #truestories #portraits #b&w #photography #instagram #street www.hughes-photography.eu www.hughes-photography.eu www.flickr.com/photos/michael_hughes www.flickr.com/photos/michael_hughes www.hughes.berlin @michaelcameronhughes