The fifth drawing is the most pictorally developed thus far. The full-length figure in profile—a straining bemedalled Nazi in uniform but without pants—is gruesome despite his humiliating, comic stance. His naked leg shows, he is heiling, and he is strangely bonneted, almost as though he were being protected from the sun (the figure's ironically abbreviated uniform suggests the tropics), with a huge bovine skull whose immense teeth are drifting away from the forehead. A bloody earth-tinged color suffuses his swastika armband and the left fist clenched behind his back, while from the rigidly upraised right hand the same thin gore obscenely drips.

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