Video: 'The Great War episode 8 War Without End' (Apr. 16, 1945, at 45:32)

(Monday, April 16, 1945, during World War II) — Six days before she died, Käthe Kollwitz, 77-year-old German printmaker and sculpto whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition, and the tragedy of war, in the first half of the 20th century, composed her final letter today, writing “the accompanies me to the end.”