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Description: | image: To the left of the composition, on the three steps of an estaminet lies a dead French priest, spread eagled, his
head thrown back so that only his neck is visible to the viewer. His surplice is rent open to his abdomen, the bent and curling fingers of
both hands grasping air. In the centre, a German infantryman in profile, right to left, stands overlooking the corpse, his left hand
holding the muzzle of his rifle, the butt of which rests upon the ground. Behind him, marching off towards the right, his comrades with
shouldered arms and fixed bayonets. They pass a large bourgeois house, the shutters of which are closed. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Weapons civilian personnel Military Personnel German invasion of Belgium and France Religion Torture propaganda Atrocities and War Crimes Imperial German Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Domergue, Jean-Gabriel | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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