Willy Pragher was a talented German photographer and photojournalist. He studied and trained at the Reimann School of Art and Design, a private art school in Berlin. In 1932, he became a freelance press photographer for Ullstein, Berliner Illustrierte, and Badische Zeitung. In 1944, Pragher was drafted into the Volkssturm, a national militia created by the German military in the final months of the war.
In 1945 he was imprisoned in Siberia as a prisoner of war. Upon his release from prison in 1949, Pragher returned to Germany, where he took numerous photographs. Here are some pictures of Berlin taken by Pragher in the summer of 1957.
