In September 1942, Leo Haas was deported to the Terezin (Theresienstadt) ghetto, north of Prague. As an artist, Haas was assigned to the Technical Department to illustrate propaganda material, which enabled him to secretly make a series of pictures showing what life in Theresienstadt was really like. He risked his life making these works, hiding the prints in walls and with the other inhabitants of Theresienstadt. After the war, Haas returned to Terezin, and retrieved some 400 of his drawings. This etching depicts the commander in chief strutting among the trees of an enclosed garden in the centre of the ghetto while the inmates are so tightly squashed together, it is almost impossible for them to move. This powerful image is one of ten in the Ben Uri Collection printed after the war using the original plate.