When the sun finally rises, she has already started walking. It’s more than just a field trip. There is method, will, precision and perseverance here. Backlighting obscures details, but it doesn’t have to be. That body posture, hiking poles, and clothes that look effectively sporty are enough. We witnessed the sunrise in the German city of Unligen, located in the Swabian Alps, south of the Danube River. The old traumas of old Europe lie in every stone that this person—likely an elderly, pensioner of that welfare state so maligned today—shakes with every step he takes. The massacres of the Franks and Germans, the Napoleonic Wars, and World War II. Many of them inspired here, in this same landscape, which today shows us only promising and idyllic postcards.
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