It looks like some kind of surrender, judging by the satchels, the two officers saluting each other, etc. So it’s possible that this unit is being transported from its base. Judging by the flowers on one of the soldiers’ uniforms, the children, and the architecture, it’s probably Germany.

A soldier wears flowers on his uniform. This is why it’s important to “humanize” the Nazis. If you make them into inhuman monsters in a way that no one can identify with, you lose the lesson of history that any people can become like them.

Before the Nazi Party took power in Germany, they were simply Germans who offered most people a solution to their political and economic problems. They sold these solutions well and offered answers that were acceptable to a people fed up with the incompetence and bureaucracy of the Weimar Republic.

They fueled nationalism and the “us versus them” mentality in a way that has been repeated in smaller doses ever since.

If you portray them as monsters, like the bogeyman we drove into the closet, rather than as real people, then you’re failing to teach the lessons of how they rose to power and turned the world upside down. If you don’t teach that lesson, history will repeat itself, and that monster will come back and eat you.

Hitler was a human being, a terrible human being. But he tried to get those around him to quit smoking. He loved his dog, had a family background similar to that of many people today, he loved the arts, and he tried to lead his country out of the shadow of a terrible war and a dire economic situation.

He allowed himself to be seduced by power, racism, and fame, and became a monster the world had never seen before. But it’s important to understand that he was still a human being, and anyone can become like him if they follow his path.

The only way to ensure this is to understand why he did what he did, who he was and where he came from.