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One hundred and twenty-five years ago, Leo Haas was born in Opava—a painter and caricaturist whose life story stands as a striking reflection of 20th-century Central Europe. He survived Nazi concentration camps, later became a propagandist for the communist regime, and eventually settled in East Berlin. Today, his drawings serve both as testimony to the horrors of Nazism and as a reminder of how easily talent can be co-opted by power.
Leo Haas was born in 1901 in Opava, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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Author: Vít Pohanka