Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 26 February 1943

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

On the Campo Santo graveyard I dug a grave. After I lay down in it Ross Cannon closed it with earth. While the audience was transported with buses to the next location of the exhibition we moved the grave to the Gele Zaal in Gent.
(17 September 1983)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1989

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BirthFactDeath (-) Friday 26th of February 1943 83 years, 11 months and 6 days ago
SS-Obergruppenführer and first commander of Dachau-KZ Theodor Eicke dies as his Fieseler Fi 156 Storch aircraft is shot down by Soviet troops at the age of 51 in Artelnoje, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine.