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Anselm Kiefer on using the Nazi salute in his art

At the first major British retrospective of his work, at the Royal Academy of Arts, painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer tells Tim Marlow about his Occupations and Heroic Symbols (Heroische Sinnbilder) series of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

These images record Kiefer’s re-enactment of the Nazi salute in locations across Europe, made in the belief that one must confront rather than suppress the experiences of history.

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