DANA MUELLER
WORKS: THE DEVIL'S DEN: 2006- 2007
Bauholzgebiet bei Berlin (lumbering area around Berlin), Coos County, New Hampshire 2007
It was considered German and pure to work the earth. Broad cultivated plains were the basis for Hitler's expansionist policy of Lebensraum, aiming to provide extra space for the growth of the German population, for a greater Germany.
In the end, Hitler's former Strafbataillon (special penal unit), which served in Africa, became POWs and lumbered the forest around Stark and Berlin, New Hampshire.
Archival pigment print
24x30 inches & 30x40 inches
It was considered German and pure to work the earth. Broad cultivated plains were the basis for Hitler's expansionist policy of Lebensraum, aiming to provide extra space for the growth of the German population, for a greater Germany.
In the end, Hitler's former Strafbataillon (special penal unit), which served in Africa, became POWs and lumbered the forest around Stark and Berlin, New Hampshire.
Archival pigment print
24x30 inches & 30x40 inches
All images copyright Dana Mueller, 2012. Portfolio design by Neon Sky.