Nicolaus Schmidt: Viet Duc: German-Vietnamese Biographies: A Reflection of History, 

In images and biographical articles, German photographer Nicolaus Schmidt (born 1953) picks apart a curious portion of German-Vietnamese history. Following the First Indochina War in 1955, children from North Vietnam were sent to boarding school in East Germany and students from South Vietnam to West Germany; the exchange had an immense impact on Vietnam.