I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.
Max BeckmannAbout author
- Author's profession: Artist
- Nationality: deutsch
- Born: February 12, 1884
- Died: December 28, 1950
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