Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...museum has shown in years. The 30 drawings were the handiwork of Iowa's mordant Mauricio Lasansky, 52, Argentine emigré printmaker and head of one of the nation's best-known graphics workshops in Iowa City. His topic: the excesses of bestiality displayed in German extermination camps of World War II. The impact of the drawings is so devastating that the Chicago Institute of Art declined to show them altogether, although they have been seen at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and will travel next to the Des Moines Art Center...
...final picture of the series, a Hitler figure is viewed in the act of self-castration. At least, some critics have him as Hitler. Lasansky declines to identify it. His concern, he says, is not primarily with indicting German Nazis; his larger intent is to remind the younger generation that the human mind and will have a vast and terrifying capacity for brutality. "It could happen again," he believes. "And I don't think the imagination can even conceive of what it would be like...
...laws were passed to safeguard Iraq's antiquities, which for over a century had been filtering out to the world's great museums. And to insure that relics unearthed in the future would be properly housed and displayed, ambitious plans for a museum were drawn up by German Architect Werner March...
...Pants. Half of the museum's galleries and halls display sculpture and artifacts unearthed by scores of U.S., British, French, German, Japanese and Iraqi archaeological teams from ruins that flourished between 6000 B.C. and A.D. 600. They prove that Iraq's prehistoric village communities were among the first to develop irrigation and contained the world's oldest granaries...
...though, is Deputy Führer Martin Bormann, now 66, who Wiesenthal claims is not only alive but doing quite nicely in Brazil. Says Wiesenthal with mock resignation: "No country will want to attempt a second Eichmann case. Bormann will come to his end some day, and the West German reward of 100,000 marks [$25,000] will never be paid." After a book like this, maybe it will...