The Textual Work of August Walla, mentally disabled artist

[Ben Trovato]

Walla was a child during the second world war. He was often dressed up as a girl by his mother, to protect him from being taken in by the HJ. When the soviet Red Army liberated the eastern part of Austria, he was no longer "forced" to wear girl's clothes. Thus, the swastika and Nazi symbols became feminine symbols to Walla, while everything "communist" became a male symbol (cf. the "KPÖ" writing on the erected cannon on the tank in the other picture).

Walla could well have been murdered, being mentally affected, by the T4 program of the Nazis. In fact, he was once examined in an institution affiliated with the T4 project. He was lucky to survive.