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Hi Colin; I can understand that you are excited about the picture - felt the sae in the beginning and would have liked just to drive there...
Please allow some comments to your above statements:
1) What brings you to the conclusion that the photographer was of German nationality? I would say, that even it would not matter - he was taking the pictures on the US-side.
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Because the image appears to have been cataloged at a German Time & Life office & as a
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if he was working on the US side, does his status of a "correspondent" allow him to cross enemy lines & take photos of abandoned vehicles?
It was also rather kind of the Sdkfz 231 & Tiger crews to pull up & allow him to take the photos no?
You do also realize that the image of the Jeep on the lower right hand side is also an overlay don't you? this makes the entire photo a collage & pretty much makes the photo as a whole unreliable.
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2) Note the distance of the position of the photographer to the Semovente is different. Whilst for the b/w pic he is standing away, for the color pic he is standing just at the wall. Therefore we can see the fallen down stones.
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The wall has not collapsed in the B&W photo, this is obvious, doesn't explain the grass, the B&W photo appears to have been taken in a different season, If the B&W photo catalog date is accurate this is in Winter note the sparse scrubby foliage whereas the colour seems to have been taken in spring.
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3) That tools etc. are missing on the color pic is no wonder - whatever was useable had been removed immediately. Either - if possible- by the former owner, by the enemy or... by the local population.
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But this isn't possible according to your logic because the 2 different photos, taken in 2 different locations in 2 different mediums have been taken at the same time (within moments).
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4) The gun does actually look more like a flamethrower than a gun. Easy to be missinterpreted. Presume that the text to the photo might be provided by somebody else than the photographer. If you are familiar with war-participants photo-abums, then you can see, how often they made completely wrong captions to their own pictures.
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While this is true, this type of mistake is far more common amongst idiots (Journalists) who don't know the difference between a tank & an APC