In his effort serve his editors at Focus Magazine and alert their curious readers just how Europeans perceive the Americans, German photographer Bernd Lohse (1911 – 1995) traveled throughout the country taking snap-shots of everything that charmed and repulsed him – take a look for yourself.

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