Title:
Langemarck German Cemetery
Description:
‘...the real truth broke upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten...the idea of community, or unity. A dead man. Not a dead Frenchman. Not a dead German. A dead man. All these corpses had been men; all these corpses had breathed as I breathed; had had a father, a mother, a woman whom they loved...I knew I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realized, at last, that these dead men, Frenchmen and Germans, were brothers, and I was brother of them all. After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face...And I would ask, who were you?...Who is mourning for you now? But I never asked who was to blame. Each had defended his own country...they had done their duty...’
Catalogue:
2014--01892