GEORGIA O’KEEFFE, Photographed at her Ghost Ranch home in Abiquiu, New Mexico, USA (c.1970s). The house was built in Adobe style, made out of straw and mud, which creates an unique soft and uneven surface on the walls. The hanging metal mobile was a gift from O’Keeffe´s friend, Alexander Calder (c.1940s). / The Red List
“…In Stalingrad, to put the question of God’s existence means to deny it. I must tell you this, Father, and I feel doubly sorry for it. You have raised me, because I had no mother, and always kept God before my eyes and soul. And I regret my words doubly, because they will be my last, and I won’t be able to speak any other words afterwards which might reconcile you and make up for these. You are a pastor, Father, and in one’s last letter one says only what is true or what one believes might be true. I have searched for God in every crater, in every destroyed house, on every comer, in every friend, in my fox hole, and in the sky. God did not show Himself, even though my heart cried for Him. The houses were destroyed, the men as brave or as cowardly as myself, on earth there was hunger and murder, from the sky came bombs and fire, only God was not there. No, Father, there is no God. Again I write it and know that this is terrible and that I cannot make up for it ever. And if there should be a God, He is only with you in the hymnals and the prayers, in the pious sayings of the priests and pastors, in the ringing of the bells and the fragrance of incense, but not in Stalingrad.”
— Last Letters from Stalingrad, Franz Schneider and Charles Gullans, published by the Hudson Review (Autumn, 1961)
