Sixteen-year-old Hans-Georg Henke.
He was stationed as an anti-aircraft soldier in Central Germany and the photo shows him being captured in 1945, he says himself.
His father, who was a communist sympathizer, died in 1938, and when his mother also died in 1944, he had to somehow earn money for the rest of the family, so he joined the Air Force at the age of 15.
According to his own account, Hans-Georg was stationed in Stettin with a battery of 88-mm guns.
As the Soviets advanced, the German forces were pushed back toward Rostock. It was here that the Soviets finally overran his unit, and it was here that these photos were taken.
American photojournalist John Florea says he took these photos in Central Germany, in Hüttenberg-Rechtenbach, north of Frankfurt am Main.
Some of the photos clearly show areas of the village that still exist today. Also, these photos show that he was wearing boots when he was captured, not rags on his feet as he later claimed.
John Florea claims that Hans-Georg is not crying because his world has collapsed, but because of battle shock after being overrun by American forces.
The reason Henke is silent on this issue must be related to the fact that after the war he chose to join the Communist Party and live in East Germany. He joined the communist party and lived in Finsterwald.
He had probably "rewritten" the story from being taken by surprise by the Americans to being captured by the Russians.
He lived a full life and died in 1997.
I believe that there are an infinite number of cases like his.
He just did what he could.
What could he have changed?