Resistance Atelier Marcel Hastir | 20230419 | Miracles•Media | Speech by Frank Schwalba-Hoth on the Belgian painter, theosophist, resistance fighter Marcel Hastir (1906-2011) in his Brussels’ Atelier, Aug 2015. Film & translation by Michel van der Burg.

Speech

“Marcel Hastir is a very clever man.

He studied German law…
…knows it like the Germans.

He is doing something mean,
staying within the frame of the law.

He discovered…
that a German law says,
that in Occupied Territory…
when you have a school,
a drawing school,
the teachers and students…
should not go to Germany
as forced laborers.

What did he do :

He found a lawyer .. a notary here in Brussels,
who made the stamps :
“it’s still a drawing school”.

And, many of the people of the resistance…
were officially registered here…
as painters, as a teacher or as a student.

And when we go upstairs later,
you still see the typewriter,
used by the resistance for printing…
leaflets against the nazis.”

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