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Charles Krafft's ceramics were long thought
to be ironic — until he was exposed as a Holocaust denier
by Bill Morlin
He crafted a ceramic Hitler-bust teapot now in a San Francisco art
museum, and put swastikas on other pieces of art, even on a ceramic
wedding cake. He made a ceramic Uzi assault rifle, hand grenades and an
“assassin’s kit” – a gun and dagger.
Now, the 65-year-old
hippie-turned-artist is at the center of a growing controversy following
a published report detailing evidence — including his own words — that
suggests he is a white nationalist who believes the Holocaust is a myth.
Hundreds
of comments about Krafft are being posted on Facebook and Twitter and
elsewhere, and the art and culture world — particularly in ceramic art
circles — are abuzz over the revelations published in The Stranger,
a Seattle alternative paper. The headline on that piece was hard to
misunderstand: “Charles Krafft Is a White Nationalist Who Believes the
Holocaust Is a Deliberately Exaggerated Myth.”
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