The Dada piece “Prussian Archangel” is a bitterly satirical comment on enduring German nationalism and the power of the military even after the First World War. The figure in the field-grey uniform of an officer hangs above the viewer “from heaven above”, as his sash proclaims. Yet his tidings are by no means joyful. The pig’s face is a provocative highlight of the sculpture, though it merely reveals what people had already shown in the killing fields: their bestial nature. The Dadaists suggested that the swine’s grimace was the true face of the era.