October 7, 2009

getting the hell out


I don't know if this guy was escaping or just didn't want to go down to the gate and be let through to do something official.

East German soldier Conrad Schuman, pre-Berlin Wall fence
1961
from George Mason University Libraries

2 comments:

honeyluna said...

I wonder what the next few shots of this guy looked like. Did he fall? Did he get a beating? I just don't know...

That Hank said...

He looks so casual about it.