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PHOTO EDINBURGH GERMAN CULTURE 1914 PITT STREET A BIZARRE RELIC OF THE GREAT WAR TUCKED AWAY IN A BACKSTREET IN BONNINGTON LEITH. THE INSCRIPTION ABOVE THE SCENE READS THE VALOUR OF GERMAN CULTURE 1914. IT DEPICTS WOMEN IN DIAPHANOUS DRESSES BEING ASSAULTED BY SOLDIERS???PRESUMABLY AN ALLUSION TO THE RAPE OF THE SABINE WOMEN???ONLY HERE THE VICTIMS ARE BELGIAN CIVILIANS AND THE PERPETRATORS BRUTAL PRUSSIAN HUNS. IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE BUILDING WAS A SLAUGHTERHOUSE WHEN THE FIGURES WERE SCULPTED. EVEN TO THE UNTRAINED EYE THE WORK WHICH HAS BEEN DAMAGED IS CRUDE AND AMATEURISHLY EXECUTED. NEVERTHELESS IT TESTIFIES TO THE STRENGTH OF ANTI-GERMAN FEELING ON THE OUTBREAK OF THE WAR. COUNTERING THE GERMANS BOAST OF THEIR SUPERIOR KULTUR WAS A MAJOR THEME IN OFFICIAL PROPAGANDA OF THE TIME AND THE BELGIAN ATROCITIES WERE SEEN AS ITS REFUTATION. ODDLY ENOUGH A BOMB FELL CLOSE TO THIS STREET (ON BONNINGTON TANNERY) DURING EDINBURGHS ONLY ZEPPELIN RAID IN APRIL 1916 BUT FAILED TO EXPLODE. 2009 COPYRIGHT (Photograph and text in Extra Info) KIM TRAYNORPHOTO PAPER THICKNESS NORMAL PHOTOGRAPH THICKNESS
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