Anniversary of the fall of Königsberg.
>Re image 2: POV, you just woke up.
The anniversary was actually April 9th, but Tuesdays are so chaotic for me I didn't get around to posting.
Now would be a good time for you to go and research the history of the city and it's destruction.
The subject of Königsberg should not be used to stoke division, it is the tragic, shared legacy of many European peoples, may we hold hands and morn losses on all sides.
Description of Image 1: Three Prussian Officer Cadets and a junior Lieutenant gather outside of Königsberg Castle, wearing walking out dress, in April 1908.
Characters are from my pre-wwi Prussian Officer Cadet drama, Moth. Their names from left to right: Vincent Odinkirk, Leon von Zelewski, Siegfried Isenstein, Gottlieb Witt.
Description of Image 2: The same view of the castle, but in April 1945. Three crosses represent the deaths of the comrades in the first image. A Soviet has crawled out from a burning tank and is screaming to be put out of his misery.
The Script of Moth, to which these Illustrations relate, does not continue beyond the 1920's. And so, this is likely to be my first and last piece of wwii art. The two images are 37 years and 2 world wars apart, but the castle and the surviving German officer, are meant to lend permanence to the composition. This is the destruction of his home.
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Grave of German soldiers in Ankenes, near Narvik - 1940
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I’m actually obsessed with the sketch version more woah
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The german soldiers gifting Margaret a Dirndl as they're visiting Jack 🌼
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some silly sketches that i never finished
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"Hin Grammophon hatten wir glicflich, aber feine Platten!"
"Na, geftern Ubend find zwei kartoffelpuffer ubrig geblieben, die gehen auch!"
"We were lucky with the gramophone, but fine records!"
"Well, in the evening we found two potato pancakes left over, they work too!"
-- Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung (Berlin Illustrated Newspaper)
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Been coloring this for days. I made a model of Vincent's headquarters office so I could draw it from various angles.
Vincent may be shown to have a bunker office in the trenches later on, it would match his pro-active personality to be closer to the danger, but I wanted to use the grand architecture of the occupied Chateau as a metaphor for pre-war civilization; this is destroyed in Ottoway volume 4.
Obersts/Colonels are important tacticians and are usually kept out of danger, but they can choose to be on the front, in the fighting.
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Peace On Earth (1939)
"Peace on Earth is a one-reel 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon short directed by Hugh Harman, about a post-apocalyptic world populated only by animals, as it is claimed in the short that human beings have gone extinct due to war."
Watch here: https://archive.org/details/peaceonearth1939_202107
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The MG 42
An MG Squad during the batte of Monte Cassino. The Mg 42 is the gun with the fastest rate of fire of WW2.
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