Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Rastenburg, Ostpreußen, Germany || Wolfsschanze

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

I lay on the floor with my head under a cupboard. On my chest is written “He Who Has No Heart Will Have No Heartaches”. Driven by an electric motor a knife cut back and forth over my chest. The performance continued for one hour.
(26 May 2004)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1987

There are 3377 births, 3944 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2083 other events about 5734 people in 6443 places until today.

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.

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Wolfsschanze

Rastenburg, Ostpreußen, Germany.

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Thursday 20th of July 1944 (x) — Under the codename ‘Operation Walkure’, Would-be assassin of Adolf Hitler Claus von Stauffenberg places a bomb in the Fuhrer’s headquarters in an attempt to assassinate him.
Hitler survived the bomb attack with minor injuries. His trousers were singed and tattered and he suffered from a perforated eardrum.