Otto Dix
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Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic and the brutality of war. Along with
Otto Dix in 1955
Stormtroopers Advancing Under Gas, etching and aquatint by Otto Dix, 1924
The Trench, 1920–23, lost
The Match Seller, 1920, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
Volkssturm
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The Volkssturm was a levée en masse national militia established by Nazi Germany during the last months of World War II. It was set up by the Nazi Party on the orders of Adolf Hitler and established o
Otto Dix
…trumped-up charge of being involved in a plot against Hitler (see Georg Elser), but was later released. During World War II, Dix was conscripted into the Volkssturm. He was captured by French troops at the end of the war and released in February 1946. Dix eventually returned to Dresden and remained there until 1966…
Volkssturmmänner marching in Berlin, November 1944. Most of the men are carrying Panzerfaust launchers; the man at the bottom carries an MG34.
Publication of the decree on the formation of the Volkssturm, 20 October 1944, first page
Second page of the publication of the decree on the formation of the Volkssturm, 20 October 1944
An SS Propaganda Company photograph of Volkssturm, 21 October 1944; only the men on the far left and far right end of the line appear to be uniformed members, with the far right being an Ordnungspolizei officer.