Concentration camp lego

[Davey Boy]

From an exhibition in New York called "Mirroring Evil".

[Luca]

Incredible!!!
Is a joke or is really???????

[Karl]

Of course it’s real!!! You can choose from Auschwitz-Berkenau, Treblinka and Dachau packs…they even have special Warsaw and Krakow Ghetto kits!!! Einsatzgruppen and Allgemeine-SS extras if you order today!!! Even Lego has thrown PC to the wind. Didn't you know?

...so, is this something new Hetman?

[Reigo]

Hey, let's play today concentration-camp!!! Yeah!!! Let's pretend that the camp commandant is really angry today and organizes a massacre!!!

Several years ago, in highschool, we had to visit an exhibition of modern art. Also this KZ Lego was presented in assembled state there (next to a big plastic cow, into who's anus you could stick your head and then watch a zoophile video from a TV in cow's stomach).

[Phaethon]

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Incredible!!!
Is a joke or is really???????

No, not a joke, but art 8)

It's an attempt by a Polish Artist, Zbigniew Libera, to contrast child's play with the harshest of realities. Several reviews are collected at:

http://users.erols.com/kennrice/lego-kz.htm

LEGO (TM) were pretty PO'd about it in 1997:

When Libera requested the LEGOs from the company's Warsaw representative, he planned to create sets for a prison and a hospital, but the project evolved into a concentration camp. According to a press release issued by the LEGO Group: "If [Libera] had described his ultimate project to us in advance, he naturally would not have received a single LEGO element from us!"

Cheers,

K.
--
Ken Cocker
London

[Phaethon]

BTW: the New York exhibit was at the Jewish Museum:

http://www.jewishmuseum.org/

K.

[Phil V]

http://www.culturevulture.net/ArtandArc ... ngEvil.htm

[Phaethon]

http://www.culturevulture.net/ArtandArch2/MirroringEvil.htm

There's an advertisement on that page which says "1 in 5 children in developing countires never reach their 5th birthday. Find out how to help"

Now there are two VERY different interpretations to that kind of sloppy phrasing...

If YOU want to help more children to never reach their 5th birthday contact Save the Children...

K.