Series 343 (Just Following Orders / SquadLeader's Testimony)*
Oil, ExPaint, latex, acrylic, spraypaint, SPOW, ExPainted ManuscriptDrips on panels (aka mixed media).
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"no feeling whatsoever because I had gotten an order."
"this after all is the way I was trained. So"
Note: this panel is no longer available.
"the entire process took maybe two hours. We sought"
"was always plenty to drink. To avoid individual resp"
*Artist notes:
Pictures inspired by the awful and trite replies to Allied prosecutors by perpetrators of the Holocaust. So often the many people behind the society-wide mass-murder enterprise spoke of their grizzly tasks blandly as if facing another long day of workplace routine. Panels bear quotes (sometimes paraphrased) like (I had) "no feeling whatsoever because I had gotten an order" or "this after all is the way I was trained" and others. The words and numbers are in English because the picture is an English-language picture --though one could imagine the English-language courtroom reporter of the period taking dictation. Meanings of the numbers are purposefully ambiguous: maybe ages of memorable victims, maybe brigade numbers, or incident-deathcounts, or numbers or bodies in various mass-graves, or prisoners' numbers.
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