What a Picture can do.

Near the end of Wiesenthal's autobiography, The Sunflower, he talks about when he had went to the house of the mother of the dead SS Solider, Karl. While there Wiesenthal describes how he "looked at the eyes that he never seen" belonging to Karl in the photo on the wall(Wiesenthal, 86). As this obviously refers to the fact that Wiesenthal never saw Karl's eyes, it has a more in depth meaning. Karl had just got in the Hitlers Youth, and was not yet tainted by their 'brain-washing's', so Wiesenthal saw the man who was not a murderer. It was as if he saw a different man then the one who begged for his forgiveness. He saw a photo of a young man who was soon to be corrupted by the war. By seeing Karl's eyes Wiesenthal understood that he could not ruin the the image that Karl's mother has about her son by telling her about the terrible things her son had done to the hundreds of Jews in the house. Wiesenthal came more into thought about if he should have forgiven the SS Solider for the massacre of his own people.