The Photograph Which Gave Courage

Last night I dreamed this. I was amazed, it seems so real, yet it is not, and I have never made something like this up while awake. I saw the photo and everything.
Eolake

The photograph which gave courage

In May 1942 a simple photograph made the rounds of all the large newspapers in the western world. It inspired and gave courage in those hard times.

It was a portrait, taken candidly, of a serious young man, perhaps sixteen years old, reading the holy bible.

It was a close-up of his face, locked in concentration upon the small bible in his hands, held closer to the camera and slightly out of focus.

The young man had small round glasses, and he seemed so devote and intent, and yet so serene, that Christian viewers all over the world felt their own courage swell as a result.

The photographer was given as Niels Juel, Karrebæksminde, Denmark. The camera a prewar Leica, probably a 90mm lens.

But two years later it was revealed: Niels Juel was not the photographer... and the young man in the picture was... Heinrich Himmler, later to become second in command to Hitler in the German Nazi regime!

Of course many people became bitter upon this revelation, there were even a few suicide attempts reported.

But perhaps the moral of the story is: if you can draw great courage and inspiration from something which was not what you thought it was, can't you draw the same from simply your own thoughts and decisions?