Alex Waterhouse-Hayward: "I distinctly remember one time when I was around 6, when my mother was combing me that she said, 'Alex, with your hair the way it is you look like Hitler.' 'Who's Hitler?' I asked. 'He was a very bad man,' she replied. Outside I explained as best as I could that all humans have the capacity for being good or for being evil. I told her that most times our good side is in charge. I mentioned Hitler. 'He was a bad man, wasn't he?' she asked me. 'No,' I replied, 'He was a lot worse. He was evil.' I proceeded to explain Auschwitz, the showers and zyklon B. When we arrived at her house she asked, 'Did water come out of those showers?' I replied, 'No.' We didn't say anything more. A couple of years ago I photographed Vancouver playwright Jonathan Teague (above). He had written a play featuring Hitler's SS. I remember telling Teague about the hair over my forehead when I was a little boy."
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