Mugshots...mostly of fellow prisoners
a 1940s starlet
Faces from the past
A caricature of Popeye
No talking inside the washroom!
Minding our step, we enter a pitch-black room. Piotr flashes his torch onto the walls. Suddenly we are surrounded by crudely drawn images. Topless women with old-fashioned hairdos appear next to what looks like charcoal drawn mugshots of shaved, hard-bitten men. Above two mugshots there is some English written: "The Two Bath Stewards".
Yes, we are currently standing in the former wash room of Stalag XX-A...and these images were all drawn by British POWs 70 years ago. The cool temperature has helped to preserve these historical forms of graffiti, but I fear with time they will soon fade away. We must try and do something to preserve this art for future generations...
Yes, we are currently standing in the former wash room of Stalag XX-A...and these images were all drawn by British POWs 70 years ago. The cool temperature has helped to preserve these historical forms of graffiti, but I fear with time they will soon fade away. We must try and do something to preserve this art for future generations...
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