... lead...into gold, as history states, "the fire which the alchemist tames is...not one of destruction but of purification." The nazis used this and in their minds it was for purification as well, but everyone else seen it as horrifying destruction. Anselm Kiefer created this painting in between the 1970's and 1980's. He himself a German, demonstrates the darkness of the holocaust in this piece of art ... . The Painting shows a hall that leads to a furnace door. The ... ...

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