Painting by Otto Engelhardt-Kyffhauser of Farmer Rudolf Eger

Painting by Otto Engelhardt-Kyffhauser from his Great Trek series - Farmer Rudolf Eger. Engelhardt-Kyffhauser was a member of the NSDAP and SS and drew numerous images of war and portrayed several national socialist greats. In January 1940, Engelhardt-Kyffhauser accompanied a trek of ethnic Germans at Himmler's request. These folk were from Galicia and Volhynia (which belonged to the Soviet-annexed Eastern Poland), and were relocated to Warthegau. 120, 000 Poles had previously been deported in order to create settlement space for them. Engelhardt-Kyffhauser documented the journey through numerous sketches and drawings that were exhibited in Berlin on March 30, 1940 and published as a book in the same year

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