Feliks Topolski 1907-1982
Matching drawings from Topolski's witnessing of Papenburg and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps at the end of the war, this edition of 'Topolski's Chronicle' looks back to the end of the war and his attendance at the Nuremberg Trials as an Official War Artist, while reflecting upon a Nazi revival in Germany. The title is lifted from a newspaper (possibly The Tribune), warning of continued neo-Nazism in the 1950s that attempted to establish a sanitised version of the "clean camp" propaganda of Nazi Germany.
Born into a politically progressive, assimilated Jewish family, Topolski trained at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts (1927–32), briefly served as an artillery officer in the Polish army, then contributed cartoons to a satirical journal. He arrived in England in 1935, commissioned to record King George V’s Silver Jubilee. An Official War Artist for both the Polish Ministry of Information in Exile and the British government during the war, as well as a correspondent for British magazines, Topolski travelled around the world and saw every front of the war.
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