A photorealistic oil painting rendered in muted, blurred tones, depicting a young German soldier in uniform smiling directly at the viewer. Richter appropriated this personal family photograph of his uncle, who served in the Nazi Wehrmacht, applying his signature technique of smearing the paint to obscure and destabilize the image's documentary clarity. The deliberate blurring creates an unsettling tension between memory and history, prompting reflection on complicity, loss, and the complex legacy of postwar German identity.