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Feliks Topolski: artist notes on 'Memoir of the Century' - 12 DPs
Year 1945 and the defeat of Germany. The last encounters for the advancing Polish Infantry and two German snipers - shot: one falling, shed precious photographs out of his wallet. The roads of Germany: while we rolled forward, the multitude of freed 'DPs' (displaced persons) - concentration camp inmates, prisoners of war, slaves - strove westward, haunted, skeletal escapees from obliteration. Then - the obliterated.

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