DEATH ''CLICK'' exhibition

[Stu W]

Great work. Its easy to romanticise about the Battle of Crete, and of course other battles, but these pictures bring home the brutality and suffering that war brings to both foes, also, local peoples suffering is often overlooked.

Indeed, local suffering is often overlooked and I wonder why Gen. Kurt Student wasn't extradited to Greece and/or punished in proportion to his actions.

Regards,
Stu

[Paul.B.]

Outstanding exhibition Skarts
Each photo conveys the horror of war and mans inhumanity
which I think as said by others is easy to forget.
I think it's healthy to shock people into thinking about the realities.

[Willi Z.]

A very impressive exhibit! Thanks for sharing this with us.

[Ross Lee]

Very interesting.

[Terje Johansen]

I am generally against the widespread online distribution of pictures of corpses, be it of military or civilian bodies, as it seem to be filling a desire for gore and human destruction that has a lot to do with lusts and very little to do with an interest in history, never mind respect for those whose lives have been unduly lost. Skarts, your work here is of a much nobler nature that pay great respect for the fallen and to the teaching of history. I can only salute your display as one of the best comprehensible works of its kind that I have heard of. Well done. Perhaps a book publishing is in the future?

[skarts]

Thank you alll for your good comments. Terje You catch my feeling....It is very difficult to present exhibitions like these in Greek audience. Im trying to give a more human and personal view to the German soldiers and all the dead in this battle. The first pictures of this exhibition were the moments before boarding or the moments in the planes or boats and a little after these men lying dead on Cretan soil. Generally Germans soldiers that were in Crete are presented as monsters and nazi killing machines by some Greek historians. Im against that and trying to give a more human perspective. On the other hand im trying to show the destruction and death that Crete suffered during WW2. I think that the battle of Crete must be written again but from a more personal view. It is in my future plans to publish a good book concerning this battle, that it will contain unknown interviews, photos, finds etc however everyday new things come to light...

[eubank]

Very interesting, sobering and tragic. A veteran, or survivor may quite understandably say "I saw some terrible things" and leave it at that, but there must be an importance to such exhibitions to demonstrate the utterly awful nature of all wars. A brave exhibition to run, no doubt dogged with controversy, or was there generally a universal support for this?

[Kelly w]

I just love the collector's so interested in certain aspects of WW2 that they take the time for public displays such as this and our French member with the Dieppe exhibition.

WEll done and now I can see why no one doubts anything that you come with as you certainly can prove your knowledge base and cultures of your homeland.