Cut and Assemble!
Scene no 28: Knights and Landsknechts in a
variety of action poses, including plenty of accessories. One-sided paper soldiers
from the back cover of the Greek boys’ comic magazine AGORI (BOY, nine issues:
no 111 – no 119, summer of 1979).
« ... because a united Europe, for which they strove, was the only – perhaps the last – possibility of survival for a marvelous old continent, a haven of human joy and fervor, but mangled and mutilated to the point of death.
A day will come, perhaps, when people will regret the defeat in 1945 of
the defenders and builders of Europe.
While awaiting that day, let us tell truthfully their epic tale – how
they fought, what trials they suffered, how they gave their hearts to the
struggle.»
Scene no 27: Waffen SS soldiers in front of the ruins of their world (King and Country toys).
The Text: From THE EASTERN FRONT: Memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer 1941-1945, by Leon Degrelle.
Palamedes concocted the game, to relieve his boredom during the ten years of the siege of Troy.
Scene no 26: All the different Romanesque chess figures (plastic pawns given as a prize inside Mr. Chips cereals, in Greece in the 70s) in a four colors battle formation.
