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Eva Leitolf
British war cemetery, Kleve-Reichswalde
[German Images - Looking for Evidence 2006-2008]
2007
C-print
66.5 x 53.5 cm (image) 81 x 69 cm (sheet)
Provided by the artist - Eva Leitolf
LL/37693
On 11 November 2001 a car with Dutch number plates was set alight on the car park opposite the main entrance to the war cemetery. The Dutch owner told the police that he had been playing the bagpipes in the cemetery when a man in a black bomber jacket and army boots aggressively demanded that he play something for a 'Rudolf Heinrich' whose birthday he said had been the week before. The Dutch man refused, and when he returned to his car a short while later he found it in flames. The state security police took charge of the investigation because the possibility of it being a political crime committed by rightwing extremists could not be excluded. They remained inconclusive.
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