Hand-painted metal targets for target practice that tell the story and current role of the Krupp arms company, founded in Germany at the end of the 19th century. The heavy industry company played a crucial role in the rise of Nazism due to its economic interests in creating a war context and therefore selling weapons to the German state.

In addition to selling weapons to the Nazi regime, the Krupp company exploited slave labor in concentration camps, even going so far as to build a factory on the outskirts of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.

In 1948, Alfried Krupp was sentenced to 12 years in prison at the Nuremberg trials for having financed, armed and collaborated with Nazism, as well as for the exploitation of slave labor in the camps.

Without serving his sentence and with complete impunity, Alfried Krupp, as well as dozens of businessmen crucial to the maintenance of the Nazi regime, was pardoned just 3 years after his sentence. The pardon was issued by the First High Commissioner of the United States for Germany, John Mc. Cloy, who also decreed that all of his accumulated fortune be returned to him.

Years later, the Krupp company allied itself with the Thyssen company, a company that was also part of the heavy industry of Nazism, and both founded ThyssenKrupp, a company that currently sells weapons to the colonial and genocidal state of Israel.

2024 - painted metal 15cm x 10cm