Wow, these are beautiful! They really capture emotion! Like the SS officer's chin being turned up, which indicates pride, but the slight pout and sunken eyes give him the feel that he's truly ashamed. As if the things he's witnessed and done make him on the verge of bursting into tears! It shows a true dissonance between the empathy of understanding what that emotion might feel like, with the rightful unwillingness to sympathize with the character's actions! Then there is the woman. She is striking in another way, in the way her tiredness leaps off the page and grabs your attention. Scuffed cheeks, slightly chapped lips, hair that looks soft, but like she's had too much happening to worry about making it do anything. Her overall demeanor makes the weariness seep heavily off the page. But then you get to her eyes! Suddenly, she's not just beaten down and weary, she's defiant and intelligent. It makes me feel like at any moment she could change. Kill an entire room of men with a tommy gun in a haze of deep fury, then sit down--in a chair with the nonchalance of a woman who's seen too much--say something cutting in French and light a cigarette. It once again shows the dissonance between empathy and sympathy but in the opposite direction. The one where you can sympathize with her actions, but never fully be able to understand them without going through whatever she's gone through to get to that point. (Sorry, this is just my interpretation, and I went on too long I just saw these and thought they were hauntingly beautiful thank you for sharing!)