The AP’s own report says it also created a visual timeline using available materials but the results “offer little evidence about the provenance of the photo.”

But it also allows the artwork to have a bigger visual impact.

The climax is a horrendous German burning of a village, striking for its visual imagery, striking for its agitated music.

The Times will use your stories and photos of what was lost in a visual collection of memories to publish at a later date.

With deliberately employed visual effects, Lopez builds a vision propelled by its own mythology where gritty realism meets the darkly fantastical.