“The Germans should play sport happily, not march”

What a great picture! In the background the ruins of Berlin-Tempelhof, in front of it a US commander with a funny face mask. What he does? He explains a game called “baseball” to the Germans. The photo was taken in 1946, the first summer after the war. And Berlin-Tempelhof was in the US allied sector.

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