“Saw the English [pilots] coming from the sea in huge bands like the bristling hair of Zeus Jupiter. Heard all destroyed in Frankfurt. Sad…”

—  Max Beckmann

12 April 1944
notes in his diary, 1944, Amsterdam; as quoted on: 'Arts in exile' http://kuenste-im-exil.de
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