WV6850 : Forced labourer sculpture

Forced labourer sculpture
Forced labourer sculpture
Emerging from the German WWII underground bunker at La Hougue Bie.
The sculpture is the work of Dutch-born artist and Belsen survivor Maurice Blik.
He says 'It is essentially a figure pushing itself out of the ground but the head is turned around 180 degrees to give the awareness of dislocation, without being totally obvious.'
It is representative of the 12 million labourers forced to work by the Nazis throughout Europe.
According to the Germans' own records there were 5,300 working in Jersey in May 1943 constructing defences such as the bunker beneath this grass.
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2009
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Photographer
Bob Embleton   (find more nearby)
Image classification
Geograph
Date Taken
Tuesday, 11 August, 2009   (more nearby)
Submitted
Friday, 7 May, 2010
Category
Sculpture   (more nearby)
Subject Location
MGRS: geotagged! WV 6816 5016 [10m precision]
WGS84: 49:12.0267N 2:3.8613W
Photographer Location
MGRS: geotagged! WV 6817 5016
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West-northwest (about 292 degrees)
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