Wartime orphans of shame unite
Published Date: 19 July 2009
By John Tagliabue in Paris
WHEN Jacques Roquencourt handles photographs, he does so with delicate hands. An accomplished aerospace engineer, he has spent his life building things like airborne radar systems. He is also one of France's foremost experts on early photography, particularly the work of Daguerre.
But when a package of photographs arrived recently from Freiburg, Germany, he handled them with special delicacy – if investigations under way bear fruit, one of the men in the black and white photos, taken in the 1930s, will prove to be the father wADVERTISEMENT