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Until his flight from Germany Koelz kept his brother's bullet-holed coat in his studio and it is obvious that memories of his death and of his own experiences in the trenches of World War One were still vivid.
The 1934 photograph shows a gas-masked soldier grotesquely crucified against a shell-blasted landscape; one of the recovered fragments of the complete work is from the lower right-hand section of this central panel, and is of the decaying corpse of another soldier.
* images which are surrounded with a yellow border are pieces
which have been located. Those which have a blue border are yet to be found.
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