[Cz-L What's it about: "The Nazi, the Painter and the Forgotten Story of the SS Road"?

Czernowitzers, dear friends...

Two letters and two drawings were sent by Arnold and Anna Daghani from Switzerland to Erich Dubowy from Romania between June and September 1976. They are reproduced by special courtesy of Erich's son, our fellow member Daniel Dubowy from Montreal in Canada. One of the reasons these letters make compelling reading, is their historical relevance, far beyond just personal considerations. You'll find the whole story - in parallel - at:

http://hauster.blogspot.de/2014/10/the-nazi-painter-and-forgotten-story-of.html
http://ehpes.com/blog1/?p=8014

Arnold Daghani shines a light on his artistic self-conception as well as on his relationship to the Romanian post WW2 artist community. Daghani died in 1985, a deeply frustrated man, and his work is now held at Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex. You will better comprehend his frustration by reading the first paragraph of Daghani's second letter: "As an 'homage', I received from the public prosecutors the entire investigation procedure file only after ten years, since, according to the chief prosecutor [Fritz Bauer], it's solely due to me, that they gained knowledge of the atrocities committed on the other side of the Bug River."

But it's finally G. H. Bennett,  Associate Professor in History at the University of Plymouth, who - by his article "The Limits of West German Justice in the 1960s: The Post-War Investigation of Walter Gieseke" and his book "The Nazi, The Painter and the Forgotten Story of the SS Road" - is enlightening the historical dimension to us. "The Nazi" was Walter Gieseke, Oberstleutnant of the Gendarmerie and SS, "The Painter" was Arnold Daghani and the DG IV (Durchgangsstraße IV) was the "SS Road", the road building project across the Ukraine which resulted in the murder of substantial numbers of Jewish forced labourers, among those many from Bukovina.

After getting numerous answers to our initial question, the final question concerns the moral condemnation and criminal conviction of the war criminals, but read by yourself G. H. Bennett's conclusion...

My very special thanks go to our fellow member and friend Daniel Dubowy, who was so kind to share these treasures with all of us!

Edgar Hauster
Lent - The Netherlands
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